Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Pake Spencer, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Pake Spencer registered to vote in Bastrop County on September 23, 1867. He reported Virginia 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- about 1865
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Pake Spencer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Pake Spencer
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- September 23, 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 yearPake Spencer reported 1 year more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Spencer in Bastrop County
- Henry Spencerborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1850
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. Bastrop County's entries fill 50 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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