Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry Spencer, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Henry Spencer registered to vote in Bastrop County on August 14, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Henry Spencer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry Spencer
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsHenry Spencer reported 16 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Spencer in Bastrop County
- Pake Spencerborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1865
Spencers 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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