Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benny Taylor, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Benny Taylor registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 11, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Benny Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benny Taylor
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsBenny Taylor reported 14 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Taylor in Bastrop County
- Anthony Taylorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- Dick Taylorborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1846
- Edward Taylorborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1863
- Gloster Taylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1855
- Henry Taylorborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1859
Taylors 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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