Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Abramm Siggens, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Abramm Siggens registered to vote in Brazos County on June 25, 1867. He reported 22 years in Texas, 12 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
22 years
In Texas
12 years
In the county
about 1845
Reached Texas
10 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1845 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Abramm Siggens

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Abramm Siggens
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
June 25, 1867
Years in Texas
22 years
Years in Brazos County
12 years
Years in the precinct
12 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
10 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

10 years

Abramm Siggens reported 10 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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