Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alec Bradford, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Alec Bradford registered to vote in Austin County on November 23, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 10 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
- 10 years
- In the county
- 17 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Alec Bradford
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alec Bradford
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Austin County
- 10 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
17 yearsAlec Bradford reported 17 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Bradford in Austin County
- James Bradfordborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1854
- Wilson Bradfordborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1854
- Wilson Bradfordborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1840
Bradfords 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 60 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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