Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Washington Jefferson, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Washington Jefferson registered to vote in Bastrop County on August 12, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Washington Jefferson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Washington Jefferson
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsWashington Jefferson reported 3 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Jefferson in Bastrop County
- Thomas Jeffersonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1854
Jeffersons 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 38 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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