Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Washington Mumson, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Washington Mumson registered to vote in Brazos County on July 14, 1867. He reported 28 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.
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 27 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Washington Mumson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Washington Mumson
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
27 yearsWashington Mumson reported 27 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Mumsons elsewhere 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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