Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Sam. Tyler, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Sam. Tyler registered to vote in Brazos County on July 19, 1867. He reported 27 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
27 years
In Texas
20 years
In the county
about 1840
Reached Texas
7 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1840 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Sam. Tyler

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Sam. Tyler
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
2
Registered
July 19, 1867
Years in Texas
27 years
Years in Brazos County
20 years
Years in the precinct
20 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
7 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

7 years

Sam. Tyler reported 7 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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