Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Orange Brown, Brazos County, Texas, 1869

Orange Brown registered to vote in Brazos County on November 24, 1869. He reported 17 years in Texas, 1 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
17 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1852
Reached Texas
16 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1852 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Orange Brown

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Orange Brown
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
November 24, 1869
Years in Texas
17 years
Years in Brazos County
1 year
Years in Texas before Brazos County
16 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Brazos County highlighted
Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

16 years

Orange Brown reported 16 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Brown in Brazos County

Browns elsewhere in Texas

All 383 freedmen named Brown 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 45 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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