Leon County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Benson, Leon County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Benson registered to vote in Leon County on August 7, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 5 of them in Leon County. Leon County registered 675 freedmen in 1867, 45% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Leon County
Thomas Benson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Benson
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Leon County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Leon County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Signature, as written
- "Thomas Howard"
Bensons elsewhere in Texas
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 4 of the Leon County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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