Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jesse Stone, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Jesse Stone registered to vote in Bexar County on July 9, 1867. He reported Maryland 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.
- Maryland
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Jesse Stone
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jesse Stone
- Place of birth
- Maryland
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 9, 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 yearsJesse Stone reported 15 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Other freedmen named Stone in Bexar County
- Byron Stoneborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1865
Stones 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 11 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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