Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wesley Callins, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Wesley Callins registered to vote in Brazos County on July 19, 1867. He reported 27 years in Texas, 20 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1840
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1840 to 1870
Wesley Callins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wesley Callins
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsWesley Callins reported 7 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Callinses 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 25 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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