Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Augustus Garding, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Augustus Garding registered to vote in Brazos County on June 25, 1867. He reported 25 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.
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
- 23 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Augustus Garding
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Augustus Garding
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- June 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 23 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
23 yearsAugustus Garding reported 23 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
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 7 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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