Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Monroe Smith, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Monroe Smith registered to vote in Brazos County on July 14, 1867. He reported 19 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.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
19 years
In Texas
11 years
In the county
about 1848
Reached Texas
8 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1848 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Monroe Smith

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Monroe Smith
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
2
Registered
July 14, 1867
Years in Texas
19 years
Years in Brazos County
11 years
Years in the precinct
11 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
8 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

8 years

Monroe Smith reported 8 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. Brazos County's entries fill 51 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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