Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Miles Carpenter, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Miles Carpenter registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 16, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Miles Carpenter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Miles Carpenter
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsMiles Carpenter reported 19 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Carpenters 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 20 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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