Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Austin Grimes, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Austin Grimes registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 31, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Austin Grimes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Austin Grimes
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsAustin Grimes reported 16 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Grimeses 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 29 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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