Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Albert Butler, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Albert Butler registered to vote in Brazos County on June 27, 1867. He reported 18 years in Texas, 2 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
18 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1849
Reached Texas
16 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1849 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Albert Butler

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Albert Butler
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
June 27, 1867
Years in Texas
18 years
Years in Brazos County
2 years
Years in the precinct
2 years
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

Albert Butler reported 16 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Butler in Brazos County

Butlers elsewhere in Texas

All 55 freedmen named Butler 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 11 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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