Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Reuben Hayes, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Reuben Hayes registered to vote in Brazos County on July 19, 1867. He reported 23 years in Texas, 17 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
23 years
In Texas
17 years
In the county
about 1844
Reached Texas
6 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1844 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Reuben Hayes

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Reuben Hayes
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
2
Registered
July 19, 1867
Years in Texas
23 years
Years in Brazos County
17 years
Years in the precinct
17 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
6 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Brazos County highlighted
Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

6 years

Reuben Hayes reported 6 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Hayes in Brazos County

Hayeses elsewhere in Texas

All 13 freedmen named Hayes 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 24 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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