Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Isaac Low, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Isaac Low registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 17, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 13 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
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Isaac Low
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Isaac Low
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsIsaac Low reported 12 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Low in Bastrop County
- Turner Lowborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1858
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 22 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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