Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Pleassant Rodgers, Galveston County, Texas, 1868
Pleassant Rodgers registered to vote in Galveston County on January 27, 1868. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Galveston County
Pleassant Rodgers
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Pleassant Rodgers
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Galveston County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- January 27, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Galveston County
- 2 months
- Years in the precinct
- 2 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Rodgers in Galveston County
- John Rodgersreached Texas about 1845
- Thomas Rodgersreached Texas about 1865
Rodgerses 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. Galveston County's entries fill 71 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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