Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Grimes, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Robert Grimes registered to vote in Brazos County on June 29, 1867. He reported 23 years in Texas, 3 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1844
- Reached Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Robert Grimes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Grimes
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- June 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsRobert Grimes reported 20 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Grimeses 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 15 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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