Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nelson Hodge, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Nelson Hodge registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 11, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 26 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 26 years
- In Texas
- 25 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1841 to 1870
Nelson Hodge
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nelson Hodge
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 26 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 25 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
25 yearsNelson Hodge reported 25 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Hodge in Bastrop County
- Mosea Hodgeborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1848
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 14 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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