Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Liberty Howard, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Liberty Howard registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 26, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Liberty Howard
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Liberty Howard
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsLiberty Howard reported 19 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Howard in Bastrop County
- George Howardborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1831
Howards 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 50 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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