Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sammuel Smiley, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Sammuel Smiley registered to vote in Brazos County on July 19, 1867. He reported 20 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.
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 11 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Sammuel Smiley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sammuel Smiley
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 11 years
- Years in the precinct
- 11 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsSammuel Smiley reported 9 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Other freedmen named Smiley in Brazos County
- Paul Smileyreached Texas about 1846
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. It sits on page 24 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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