Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Barnett, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Jim Barnett registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 4, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Jim Barnett
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Barnett
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Bastrop County
- Registered
- July 4, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsJim Barnett reported 2 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Barnett in Bastrop County
- Henry Barnettborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1863
- Josephus Barnettborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1852
Barnetts 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 2 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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