Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mathew Strecher, Brazos County, Texas, 1869
Mathew Strecher registered to vote in Brazos County on November 18, 1869. He reported 30 years in Texas, 1 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 29 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Mathew Strecher
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mathew Strecher
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 18, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 29 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
29 yearsMathew Strecher reported 29 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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