Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Simon Smith, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Simon Smith registered to vote in Brazos County on June 27, 1867. He reported 30 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.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
30 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1837
Reached Texas
28 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1837 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Simon Smith

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Simon Smith
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
June 27, 1867
Years in Texas
30 years
Years in Brazos County
2 years
Years in the precinct
2 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
28 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

28 years

Simon Smith reported 28 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Smith in Brazos County

Smiths elsewhere in Texas

All 459 freedmen named Smith 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 11 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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