Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jordan Hightower, Brazos County, Texas, 1869
Jordan Hightower registered to vote in Brazos County on November 18, 1869. He reported 22 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.
- 22 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Jordan Hightower
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jordan Hightower
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 18, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsJordan Hightower reported 20 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Hightowers 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 36 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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