Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Me Jenkins, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Me Jenkins registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 8, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 11 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 11 years
- In Texas
- about 1856
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1856 to 1870
Me Jenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Me Jenkins
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 11 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsMe Jenkins reported 10 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Jenkins in Bastrop County
- Sammel Jenkinsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1840
Jenkinses 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 7 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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