Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jordan Mathes, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Jordan Mathes registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 17, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Jordan Mathes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jordan Mathes
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearJordan Mathes reported 1 year more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Matheses 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 43 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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