Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sandy Keenet, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Sandy Keenet registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 8, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 29 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Sandy Keenet
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sandy Keenet
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 29 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
29 yearsSandy Keenet reported 29 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Keenet in Bastrop County
- Sandy Keenetborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1862
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 8 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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