Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

John Moore, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

John Moore registered to vote in Brazos County on June 29, 1867. He reported 10 years in Texas, 6 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
10 years
In Texas
6 years
In the county
about 1857
Reached Texas
4 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1857 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

John Moore

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
John Moore
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
June 29, 1867
Years in Texas
10 years
Years in Brazos County
6 years
Years in the precinct
6 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
4 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

4 years

John Moore reported 4 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Moore in Brazos County

Moores elsewhere in Texas

All 197 freedmen named Moore 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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