Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Luke Aldridge, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Luke Aldridge registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 12, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Luke Aldridge
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Luke Aldridge
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Bastrop County
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsLuke Aldridge reported 11 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Aldridge in Bastrop County
- John Aldridgeborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1851
Aldridges 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 16 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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