Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Caswell Brooks, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Caswell Brooks registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 31, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Caswell Brooks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Caswell Brooks
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 4
- Place of residence
- Walnut Creek
- Registered
- July 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsCaswell Brooks reported 24 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Brooks in Bastrop County
- Alfred Brooksborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1840
- Louis Brooksborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1857
- Sammel Brooksborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1843
Brookses 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 29 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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