Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Horton, Bexar County, Texas, 1869
Benjamin Horton registered to vote in Bexar County on November 24, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Benjamin Horton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Horton
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Hortons 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 51 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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