Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gilbert Dawson, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Gilbert Dawson registered to vote in Brazos County on July 19, 1867. He reported 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 25 years
- In Texas
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
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In Brazos County
Gilbert Dawson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gilbert Dawson
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Dawsons 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 26 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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