Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ned Griffin, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Ned Griffin registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 23, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Ned Griffin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ned Griffin
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsNed Griffin reported 9 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Griffin in Bastrop County
- Alfred Griffinborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1855
Griffins 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 25 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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