Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Austin Blackmore, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Austin Blackmore registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 4, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Austin Blackmore
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Austin Blackmore
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Bastrop County
- Registered
- July 4, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsAustin Blackmore reported 9 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
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 2 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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