Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jae Meggs, Brazos County, Texas, 1869
Jae Meggs registered to vote in Brazos County on November 22, 1869. He reported 55 years in Texas, 10 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 55 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1814
- Reached Texas
- 45 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1814 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County
Jae Meggs
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jae Meggs
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 55 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 10 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 45 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
45 yearsJae Meggs reported 45 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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