Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gorden Kennedy, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Gorden Kennedy registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 10, 1867. He reported Mississippi 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.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Gorden Kennedy
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gorden Kennedy
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 10, 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 yearsGorden Kennedy reported 3 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Kennedy in Bastrop County
- Luke Kennedyborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1851
Kennedys 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. Bastrop County's entries fill 50 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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