Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Stephan Morton, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Stephan Morton registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 6, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Stephan Morton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Stephan Morton
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsStephan Morton reported 7 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Morton in Bastrop County
- David Mortonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1851
Mortons 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 5 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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