Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Cluff Haywood, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Cluff Haywood registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 6, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 29 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 29 years
- In Texas
- about 1838
- Reached Texas
- 28 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1838 to 1870
Cluff Haywood
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Cluff Haywood
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 29 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 28 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
28 yearsCluff Haywood reported 28 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Haywood in Bastrop County
- Benjamin Haywoodborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1841
- Benjamin Haywoodborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1831
- Edmund Haywoodborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
Haywoods 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 5 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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