Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Will. Ruffin, Brazos County, Texas, 1869
Will. Ruffin registered to vote in Brazos County on November 26, 1869. He reported 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Brazos County
Will. Ruffin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Will. Ruffin
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Ruffins 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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