Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mosea Hodge, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Mosea Hodge registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 16, 1869. He reported Mississippi 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.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Mosea Hodge
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mosea Hodge
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 16, 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 yearsMosea Hodge reported 20 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Hodge in Bastrop County
- Nelson Hodgeborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1841
Hodges elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Hodge
- Hodges 19
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 43 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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