Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Richard Moseley, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Richard Moseley registered to vote in Brazos County on June 25, 1867. He reported 14 years in Texas, 4 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
14 years
In Texas
4 years
In the county
about 1853
Reached Texas
10 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1853 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Richard Moseley

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Richard Moseley
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
June 25, 1867
Years in Texas
14 years
Years in Brazos County
4 years
Years in the precinct
4 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

Richard Moseley reported 10 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Moseley in Brazos County

Moseleys elsewhere in Texas

All 16 freedmen named Moseley 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. It sits on page 7 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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