Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ned Adams, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Ned Adams registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 16, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Ned Adams
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ned Adams
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsNed Adams reported 12 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Adamses 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 21 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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