Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Bailey, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Benjamin Bailey registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 8, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Benjamin Bailey
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Bailey
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsBenjamin Bailey reported 15 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Bailey in Bastrop County
- Benjamin Baileyborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
- Dennis Baileyborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1845
- Joseph Baileyborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1845
- Wilson Baileyborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
Baileys 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 8 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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