Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Shields, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Benjamin Shields registered to vote in Bexar County on July 17, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Benjamin Shields
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Shields
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Registered
- July 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Shields in Bexar County
- W. Bryant Shieldsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1866
Shieldses 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 25 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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