Nueces County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Stiles Burges, Nueces County, Texas, 1869
Stiles Burges registered to vote in Nueces County on November 26, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Certificate withdrawn having registered in Calhoun Co" beside his name. Nueces County registered 69 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Stiles Burges
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Stiles Burges
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Nueces County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Certificate withdrawn having registered in Calhoun Co"
Burgeses 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 13 of the Nueces County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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