Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Green Edwards, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Green Edwards registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 9, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 26 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 26 years
- In Texas
- about 1841
- Reached Texas
- 25 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1841 to 1870
Green Edwards
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Green Edwards
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 26 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 25 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
25 yearsGreen Edwards reported 25 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Edwards in Bastrop County
- Anthony Edwardsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1865
- Green Edwardsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1838
- James Edwardsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1847
- Louis Edwardsborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1865
- Osburn Edwardsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1864
Edwardses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Edwards
- Edward 5
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 8 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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