Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abraham Gilmore, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Abraham Gilmore registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 26, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Abraham Gilmore
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abraham Gilmore
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsAbraham Gilmore reported 18 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Gilmores 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 50 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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