Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gasephus Phillips, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Gasephus Phillips registered to vote in Anderson County on July 26, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Gasephus Phillips
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gasephus Phillips
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Phillips in Anderson County
- Bucins Phillipsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1851
- Grawiille Phillipsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1852
- Haywood Phillipsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- Lewis Phillipsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1864
- Mack Phillipsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1853
Phillipses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Phillips
- Philips 20
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. Anderson County's entries fill 53 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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