Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Bailey, Bexar County, Texas, 1869
Benjamin Bailey registered to vote in Bexar County on November 18, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 17 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Benjamin Bailey
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Bailey
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 18, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 10 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
17 yearsBenjamin Bailey reported 17 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Other freedmen named Bailey in Bexar County
- William Baileyborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1847
Baileys 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 45 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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