Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Aaron Thompson, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Aaron Thompson registered to vote in Brazos County on June 26, 1867. He reported 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.

Registered in Brazos County, Texas

14 years
In Texas: 14 years
In the county: about 1853
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1853 to 1870

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In Brazos County

Aaron Thompson

Texas

Name: Aaron Thompson
County of registration: Brazos County
Precinct: 4
Registered: June 26, 1867
Years in Texas: 14 years
Years in Brazos County: 14 years
Years in the precinct: 14 years
Remarks, as written: "Colored"

Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Thompson in Brazos County

Henry Thompsonreached Texas about 1847
Lewis Thompsonreached Texas about 1864
Warren Thompsonreached Texas about 1849

Thompsons elsewhere in Texas

All 165 freedmen named Thompson in Texas

Variations of Thompson

Thomson 10

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 10 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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