Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Henderson, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Henderson registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 13, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 29 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Thomas Henderson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Henderson
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 29 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
29 yearsThomas Henderson reported 29 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Henderson in Bastrop County
- James Hendersonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1855
- Wash Hendersonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
Hendersons 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 16 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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