Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Fletcher, Cooke County, Texas, 1867
Benjamin Fletcher registered to vote in Cooke County on August 3, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 3 of them in Cooke County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Cooke County registered 89 freedmen in 1867, 11% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Benjamin Fletcher
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Fletcher
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Cooke County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsBenjamin Fletcher reported 13 years more in Texas than in Cooke County.
Fletchers 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 5 of the Cooke County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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