Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry Jackson, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Henry Jackson registered to vote in Bexar County on July 8, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Henry Jackson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry Jackson
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 5 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsHenry Jackson reported 24 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Other freedmen named Jackson in Bexar County
- Adam Jacksonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1855
- Alexander Jacksonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1853
- Andrew Jacksonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Frank Jacksonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1863
- General Jacksonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1862
Jacksons 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 10 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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