Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abraham Buchanan, Bexar County, Texas, 1869
Abraham Buchanan registered to vote in Bexar County on November 26, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Abraham Buchanan
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abraham Buchanan
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Buchanan in Bexar County
- George Buchananborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
- Hnry Buchananborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1842
Buchanans 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 56 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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