Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peyton Scott, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Peyton Scott registered to vote in Bexar County on July 16, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Peyton Scott
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peyton Scott
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Registered
- July 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Scott in Bexar County
- Jerace Scottborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1860
Scotts 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 23 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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