Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Graze, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Jim Graze registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 17, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Jim Graze
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Graze
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsJim Graze reported 19 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
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 43 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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