Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Curtis, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Curtis registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 10, 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
Joseph Curtis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Curtis
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 10, 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 yearsJoseph Curtis reported 22 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Curtises 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 12 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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