Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mike Bailey, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Mike Bailey registered to vote in Austin County on November 22, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 3 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Mike Bailey
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mike Bailey
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Austin County
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsMike Bailey reported 24 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Bailey in Austin County
- Edward Baileyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1857
- Isaac Baileyborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1842
- Miles Baileyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1857
- Square Baileyborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1842
Baileys 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 58 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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