Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jacob Monroe, Bastrop County, Texas, 1868
Jacob Monroe registered to vote in Bastrop County on January 29, 1868. 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 1859
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Jacob Monroe
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jacob Monroe
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- January 29, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsJacob Monroe reported 8 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Monroe in Bastrop County
- Gabriel Monroeborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1853
- Jordan Monroeborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1855
Monroes 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 40 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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