Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Linard, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Peter Linard registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 9, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Peter Linard
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Linard
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsPeter Linard reported 9 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Linard in Bastrop County
- Peter Linardborn in Indiana, reached Texas about 1837
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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