Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Douglas, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Douglas registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 15, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Joseph Douglas
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Douglas
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsJoseph Douglas reported 24 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Douglas in Bastrop County
- Edmond Douglasborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1853
Douglases elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Douglas
- Douglass 27
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 19 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
African American genealogy in Bastrop County, Texas
Bastrop County freedmen and genealogyEvery freedman who registered in Bastrop CountyThe Douglas name in TexasBorn in TexasSearch Bastrop County by name