Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Ed,pmd Reed, Brazos County, Texas, 1869

Ed,pmd Reed registered to vote in Brazos County on November 26, 1869. He reported 6 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
6 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1863
Reached Texas
5 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Ed,pmd Reed

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Ed,pmd Reed
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
5
Registered
November 26, 1869
Years in Texas
6 years
Years in Brazos County
1 year
Years in Texas before Brazos County
5 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

5 years

Ed,pmd Reed reported 5 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. Brazos County's entries fill 51 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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