Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Homes, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Homes registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 11, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 27 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Thomas Homes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Homes
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
27 yearsThomas Homes reported 27 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Homes in Bastrop County
- Anthony Homesborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1864
- Bernnel Homesborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1862
- Isaac Homesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1856
Homeses 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 14 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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