Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Burden Jennings, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Burden Jennings registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 10, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 18 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
- 18 years
- In Texas
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 17 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Burden Jennings
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Burden Jennings
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
17 yearsBurden Jennings reported 17 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Jenningses 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 12 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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