Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ross Shippen, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Ross Shippen registered to vote in Brazos County on June 29, 1867. He reported 18 years in Texas, 2 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Ross Shippen
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ross Shippen
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- June 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsRoss Shippen reported 16 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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