Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Hudson, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Jim Hudson registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 24, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Jim Hudson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Hudson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsJim Hudson reported 7 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Hudson in Bastrop County
- York Hudsonborn in New York, reached Texas about 1847
Hudsons 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 47 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
African American genealogy in Bastrop County, Texas
Bastrop County freedmen and genealogyEvery freedman who registered in Bastrop CountyThe Hudson name in TexasBorn in TennesseeSearch Bastrop County by name