Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Tom Black, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Tom Black registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 20, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Tom Black
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Tom Black
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Bastrop County
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsTom Black reported 11 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Black in Bastrop County
- Augustus Blackborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1852
- John Blackborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
- John Blackborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1853
- Nathan Blackborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1837
- Randle Blackborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
Blacks 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 45 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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