Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph King, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Joseph King registered to vote in Bexar County on August 6, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Joseph King
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph King
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsJoseph King reported 15 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Other freedmen named King in Bexar County
- Anthony Kingborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1851
- Moses Kingborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1846
- William Kingborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1863
Kings elsewhere in Texas
Variations of King
- Kinching 6
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 Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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