Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Fields, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Benjamin Fields registered to vote in Walker County on September 25, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 2 of them in Walker County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Benjamin Fields
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Fields
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- September 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Walker County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Walker County
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Benjamin X Fields"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsBenjamin Fields reported 3 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
Other freedmen named Fields in Walker County
- William Fieldsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1863
Fieldses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Fields
- Field 9
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 32 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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