Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Harrison Mitchell, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Harrison Mitchell registered to vote in Brazos County on July 5, 1867. He reported 7 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
7 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1860
Reached Texas
6 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1860 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Harrison Mitchell

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Harrison Mitchell
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
July 5, 1867
Years in Texas
7 years
Years in Brazos County
1 year
Years in the precinct
1 year
Years in Texas before Brazos County
6 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

6 years

Harrison Mitchell reported 6 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Mitchell in Brazos County

Mitchells elsewhere in Texas

All 68 freedmen named Mitchell in Texas

Variations of Mitchell

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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