Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Grant Taylor, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Grant Taylor registered to vote in Bexar County on July 2, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Grant Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Grant Taylor
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Taylor in Bexar County
- Charles Taylorborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1845
- Henry Taylorborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1842
- Henry Taylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1858
- Sammuel Taylorborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1854
Taylors 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 3 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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