Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Peeples, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Robert Peeples registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 12, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Robert Peeples
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Peeples
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsRobert Peeples reported 2 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
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. Bastrop County's entries fill 50 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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