Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Caldwell Turner, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Caldwell Turner registered to vote in Brazos County on July 19, 1867. He reported 20 years in Texas, 20 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
20 years
In Texas
20 years
In the county
about 1847
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1847 to 1870

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In Brazos County

Caldwell Turner

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Caldwell Turner
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
2
Registered
July 19, 1867
Years in Texas
20 years
Years in Brazos County
20 years
Years in the precinct
20 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Brazos County highlighted
Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Turner in Brazos County

Turners elsewhere in Texas

All 105 freedmen named Turner 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 25 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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