Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edward Damean, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Edward Damean registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 10, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 24 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 24 years
- In Texas
- 23 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1843 to 1870
Edward Damean
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edward Damean
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 24 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 23 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
23 yearsEdward Damean reported 23 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
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. Bastrop County's entries fill 50 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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