Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Pickens Dennis, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Pickens Dennis registered to vote in Bastrop County on September 23, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Pickens Dennis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Pickens Dennis
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- September 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsPickens Dennis reported 2 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Dennis in Bastrop County
- Green Dennisborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
- Jim Dennisborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1849
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 39 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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