Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sadwell Rector, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Sadwell Rector registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 9, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Sadwell Rector
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sadwell Rector
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsSadwell Rector reported 14 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Rector in Bastrop County
- Amos Rectorborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1846
- James Rectorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1847
- Morris Rectorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1855
- Wesley Rectorborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1852
Rectors 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. Bastrop County's entries fill 50 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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