Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Wash Reed, Brazos County, Texas, 1869

Wash Reed registered to vote in Brazos County on November 19, 1869. He reported 17 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.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
17 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1852
Reached Texas
16 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1852 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Wash Reed

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Wash Reed
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
November 19, 1869
Years in Texas
17 years
Years in Brazos County
1 year
Years in Texas before Brazos County
16 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

16 years

Wash Reed reported 16 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Reed in Brazos County

Reeds elsewhere in Texas

All 70 freedmen named Reed 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 38 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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