Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Jefferson, Bexar County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Jefferson registered to vote in Bexar County on November 24, 1869. He reported Kentucky 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.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Thomas Jefferson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Jefferson
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 3 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsThomas Jefferson reported 14 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Other freedmen named Jefferson in Bexar County
- Ben. Franklin Jeffersonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1862
Jeffersons 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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