Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Sathaw Morgan, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Sathaw Morgan registered to vote in Brazos County on July 2, 1867. He reported 6 years in Texas, 2 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
6 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1861
Reached Texas
4 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From 1860 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Sathaw Morgan

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Sathaw Morgan
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
July 2, 1867
Years in Texas
6 years
Years in Brazos County
2 years
Years in the precinct
2 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

Sathaw Morgan reported 4 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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