Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Merrit Richerson, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Merrit Richerson registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 25, 1867. He reported Alabama 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.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Merrit Richerson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Merrit Richerson
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 25, 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 yearsMerrit Richerson reported 2 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Richerson in Bastrop County
- John Richersonborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1851
- John Richersonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1865
- Robert Richersonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1863
Richersons 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 26 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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