Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abraham Shaw, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Abraham Shaw registered to vote in Bastrop County on August 7, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- about 1865
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Abraham Shaw
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abraham Shaw
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearAbraham Shaw reported 1 year more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Shaw in Bastrop County
- Berrnell Shawborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1850
Shaws 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 34 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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