Gillespie County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Paris Brown, Gillespie County, Texas, 1867
Paris Brown registered to vote in Gillespie County on August 17, 1867. He reported 25 years in Texas, 14 of them in Gillespie County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Gillespie County registered 17 freedmen in 1867, 3% of its voters.
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Paris Brown
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Paris Brown
- County of registration
- Gillespie County
- Registered
- August 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Gillespie County
- 14 years
- Years in Texas before Gillespie County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsParis Brown reported 11 years more in Texas than in Gillespie County.
Browns 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 6 of the Gillespie County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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