Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Haywood, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Edmund Haywood registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 25, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Edmund Haywood
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Haywood
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsEdmund Haywood reported 24 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
- Cluff Haywoodborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1838
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 48 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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