Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Nelson Cook, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Nelson Cook registered to vote in Brazos County on July 2, 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.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
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

Nelson Cook

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Nelson Cook
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
July 2, 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"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Brazos County highlighted
Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

19 years

Nelson Cook reported 19 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Cook in Brazos County

Cooks elsewhere in Texas

All 39 freedmen named Cook 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 19 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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