Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Jae Reeves, Brazos County, Texas, 1869

Jae Reeves registered to vote in Brazos County on November 24, 1869. He reported 19 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
19 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1850
Reached Texas
18 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1850 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Jae Reeves

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Jae Reeves
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
5
Registered
November 24, 1869
Years in Texas
19 years
Years in Brazos County
1 year
Years in Texas before Brazos County
18 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

18 years

Jae Reeves reported 18 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

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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