Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Rawson Leonard, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Rawson Leonard registered to vote in Brazos County on June 28, 1867. He reported 26 years in Texas, 16 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
26 years
In Texas
16 years
In the county
about 1841
Reached Texas
10 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1841 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Rawson Leonard

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Rawson Leonard
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
June 28, 1867
Years in Texas
26 years
Years in Brazos County
16 years
Years in the precinct
16 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
10 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

10 years

Rawson Leonard reported 10 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Leonards elsewhere in Texas

All 7 freedmen named Leonard 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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