Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Paul Smiley, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Paul Smiley registered to vote in Brazos County on July 14, 1867. He reported 21 years in Texas, 11 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 11 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County
Paul Smiley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Paul Smiley
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 11 years
- Years in the precinct
- 11 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsPaul Smiley reported 10 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Other freedmen named Smiley in Brazos County
- Sammuel Smileyreached Texas about 1847
Smileys 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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