Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Stewart Starke, Bastrop County, Texas, 1868
Stewart Starke registered to vote in Bastrop County on January 30, 1868. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Stewart Starke
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Stewart Starke
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- January 30, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsStewart Starke reported 3 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Starkes elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Starke
- Starks 16
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 41 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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