Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Antney Ferrell, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Antney Ferrell registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 9, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter. Removed to Fayette County" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Antney Ferrell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Antney Ferrell
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter. Removed to Fayette County"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsAntney Ferrell reported 13 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Ferrell in Bastrop County
- Abraham Ferrellborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
- Antony Ferrellborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1836
Ferrells 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 8 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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