Matagorda County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Bass, Matagorda County, Texas, 1867
Robert Bass registered to vote in Matagorda County on August 20, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. Matagorda County registered 174 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Matagorda County
Robert Bass
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Bass
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Matagorda County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Matagorda County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Years in Texas before Matagorda County
- 13 years
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsRobert Bass reported 13 years more in Texas than in Matagorda County.
Basses 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 9 of the Matagorda County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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