Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Musk Alford, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Musk Alford registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 8, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 27 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Musk Alford
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Musk Alford
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
27 yearsMusk Alford reported 27 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Alford in Bastrop County
- Buck Alfordborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1853
Alfords 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 6 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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