Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Smith, Bexar County, Texas, 1868
Thomas Smith registered to vote in Bexar County on January 29, 1868. He reported Florida 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.
- Florida
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Thomas Smith
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Smith
- Place of birth
- Florida
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- January 29, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Bexar County
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Smith in Bexar County
- Alex Smithborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1863
- Henry C. Smithborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1863
- July Smithborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1854
- Milton Smithborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1861
- Preston Smithborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1865
Smiths 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 38 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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