Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wesley Hutchings, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Wesley Hutchings registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 11, 1867. He reported Virginia 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Wesley Hutchings
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wesley Hutchings
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- 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 yearsWesley Hutchings reported 7 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Hutchings in Bastrop County
- Ruben Hutchingsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1857
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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