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.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
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

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

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"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Brazos County highlighted
Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

27 years

Josiah Jenkins reported 27 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

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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