Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Buck Trigg, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Buck Trigg registered to vote in Bastrop County on August 10, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Buck Trigg
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Buck Trigg
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsBuck Trigg reported 12 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Trigg in Bastrop County
- Albert Triggborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1854
- Albert Triggborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1854
- Campbell Triggborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1850
- David Triggborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
- Dock Triggborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1856
Triggs 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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