Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lawrence Marshall, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Lawrence Marshall registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 24, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Lawrence Marshall
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lawrence Marshall
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsLawrence Marshall reported 19 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Marshall in Bastrop County
- John Marshallborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1863
Marshalls 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 47 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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