Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry Clay, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Henry Clay registered to vote in Brazos County on June 27, 1867. He reported 20 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.
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County
Henry Clay
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry Clay
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- June 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsHenry Clay reported 19 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Other freedmen named Clay in Brazos County
- Henry Clayreached Texas about 1847
Clays 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 12 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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