Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joshua Davidson, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Joshua Davidson registered to vote in Brazos County on June 22, 1867. He reported 21 years in Texas, 5 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Joshua Davidson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joshua Davidson
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Registered
- June 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsJoshua Davidson reported 16 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Other freedmen named Davidson in Brazos County
- Henry Davidsonreached Texas about 1837
Davidsons 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 6 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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