Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Phil Dorsey, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Phil Dorsey registered to vote in Brazos County on August 3, 1867. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Phil Dorsey
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Dorsey in Brazos County
- Anderson Dorseyreached Texas about 1849
- Sandy Dorseyreached Texas about 1848
- Thomas Dorseyreached Texas about 1851
Dorseys 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 28 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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