Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Turner Low, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Turner Low registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 4, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Bastrop County
Turner Low
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Turner Low
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 4, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Other freedmen named Low in Bastrop County
- Isaac Lowborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1854
Lows 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 1 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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