Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dennis Banks, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Dennis Banks registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 9, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 22 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Dennis Banks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dennis Banks
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Bastrop County
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 22 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
22 yearsDennis Banks reported 22 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Bankses 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 9 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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