Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Handcook, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Robert Handcook registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 11, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 27 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Robert Handcook
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Handcook
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
27 yearsRobert Handcook reported 27 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 13 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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