Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dick Taylor, Bastrop County, Texas, 1868
Dick Taylor registered to vote in Bastrop County on January 29, 1868. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 22 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Dick Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dick Taylor
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- January 29, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 21 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
21 yearsDick Taylor reported 21 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Taylor in Bastrop County
- Anthony Taylorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- Benny Taylorborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- 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. It sits on page 40 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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