Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Francis Riggins, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Francis Riggins registered to vote in Bastrop County on August 12, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Francis Riggins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Francis Riggins
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsFrancis Riggins reported 24 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Riggins in Bastrop County
- Jefferson Rigginsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
Rigginses 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 38 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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