Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wash Hardeman, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Wash Hardeman registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 20, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Wash Hardeman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wash Hardeman
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsWash Hardeman reported 20 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Hardemans 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 45 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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