Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edward Ray, Brazos County, Texas, 1869
Edward Ray registered to vote in Brazos County on November 19, 1869. He reported 30 years in Texas, 5 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 25 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County
Edward Ray
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edward Ray
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 25 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
25 yearsEdward Ray reported 25 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Rays 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. It sits on page 37 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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