Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Josiah Jenkins, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Josiah Jenkins registered to vote in Brazos County on June 24, 1867. He reported 35 years in Texas, 8 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 35 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1832
- Reached Texas
- 27 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1832 to 1870
Josiah Jenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Josiah Jenkins
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- June 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 35 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
27 yearsJosiah Jenkins reported 27 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Other freedmen named Jenkins in Brazos County
- James Jenkinsreached Texas about 1859
- Robert Jenkinsreached Texas about 1865
Jenkinses 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. Brazos County's entries fill 51 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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