Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Dennis, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Jim Dennis registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 6, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 17 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Jim Dennis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Dennis
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
17 yearsJim Dennis reported 17 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Dennis in Bastrop County
- Green Dennisborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
- Pickins Dennisborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1864
Dennises 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 5 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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