Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Squire Martin, Bexar County, Texas, 1869
Squire Martin registered to vote in Bexar County on November 19, 1869. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Squire Martin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Squire Martin
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 10 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearSquire Martin reported 1 year more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Martins 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 47 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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