Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Willis Henry, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Willis Henry registered to vote in Brazos County on June 22, 1867. He reported 4 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.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
4 years
In Texas
3 years
In the county
about 1863
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Willis Henry

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Willis Henry
County of registration
Brazos County
Registered
June 22, 1867
Years in Texas
4 years
Years in Brazos County
3 years
Years in the precinct
3 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
1 year
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Brazos County highlighted
Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

1 year

Willis Henry reported 1 year more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Henry in Brazos County

Henrys elsewhere in Texas

All 98 freedmen named Henry 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 6 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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