Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Jerry Cook, Brazos County, Texas, 1869

Jerry Cook registered to vote in Brazos County on November 17, 1869. He reported 5 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
5 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1864
Reached Texas
3 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Jerry Cook

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Jerry Cook
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
November 17, 1869
Years in Texas
5 years
Years in Brazos County
2 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
3 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

3 years

Jerry Cook reported 3 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 34 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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