Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Tom. Newson, Brazos County, Texas, 1869

Tom. Newson registered to vote in Brazos County on November 19, 1869. He reported 40 years in Texas, 10 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
40 years
In Texas
10 years
In the county
about 1829
Reached Texas
30 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1829 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Tom. Newson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Tom. Newson
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
1
Registered
November 19, 1869
Years in Texas
40 years
Years in Brazos County
10 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
30 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

30 years

Tom. Newson reported 30 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Variations of Newson

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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