Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Louis Hancock, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Louis Hancock registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 13, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Louis Hancock
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Louis Hancock
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsLouis Hancock reported 11 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Hancock in Bastrop County
- Alexander Hancockborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1853
- Buckner Hancockborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1840
- Isaac Hancockborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1845
- Peter Hancockborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1853
- Peter Hancockborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1866
Hancocks 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 18 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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