Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joshua Franklin, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Joshua Franklin registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 13, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
Joshua Franklin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joshua Franklin
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsJoshua Franklin reported 6 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Franklin in Bastrop County
- James Franklinborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1855
Franklins 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 17 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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