Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alfred Polk, Brazos County, Texas, 1869
Alfred Polk registered to vote in Brazos County on November 19, 1869. He reported 22 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.
- 22 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
1847186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County
Alfred Polk
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alfred Polk
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsAlfred Polk reported 20 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Other freedmen named Polk in Brazos County
- Chesterfield Polkreached Texas about 1848
Polks 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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