Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Cass Hall, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Cass Hall registered to vote in Bastrop County on August 15, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Cass Hall
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Cass Hall
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsCass Hall reported 7 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Hall in Bastrop County
- Albert Hallborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1851
- Isaac Hallborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1853
- William Hallborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1856
Halls 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 39 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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