Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Harrison Auldrige, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Harrison Auldrige registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 9, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Harrison Auldrige
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Harrison Auldrige
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Bastrop County
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsHarrison Auldrige reported 4 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Auldrige in Bastrop County
- Benjamin Auldrigeborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- Fountain Auldrigeborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1852
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 9 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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