Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Lee Johns, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Lee Johns registered to vote in Brazos County on June 27, 1867. He reported 15 years in Texas, 1 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
15 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1852
Reached Texas
14 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1852 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Lee Johns

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Lee Johns
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
June 27, 1867
Years in Texas
15 years
Years in Brazos County
1 year
Years in the precinct
1 year
Years in Texas before Brazos County
14 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

14 years

Lee Johns reported 14 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Johnses elsewhere in Texas

All 25 freedmen named Johns in Texas

Variations of Johns

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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