Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Mark Jefferson, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Mark Jefferson registered to vote in Brazos County on July 14, 1867. He reported 6 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.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
6 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1861
Reached Texas
4 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From 1860 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Mark Jefferson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Mark Jefferson
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
2
Registered
July 14, 1867
Years in Texas
6 years
Years in Brazos County
2 years
Years in the precinct
2 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
4 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

4 years

Mark Jefferson reported 4 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Jefferson in Brazos County

Jeffersons elsewhere in Texas

All 86 freedmen named Jefferson 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. Brazos County's entries fill 51 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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