Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Manderville Wilson, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Manderville Wilson registered to vote in Brazos County on June 22, 1867. He reported 30 years in Texas, 15 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
30 years
In Texas
15 years
In the county
about 1837
Reached Texas
15 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1837 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Manderville Wilson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Manderville Wilson
County of registration
Brazos County
Registered
June 22, 1867
Years in Texas
30 years
Years in Brazos County
15 years
Years in the precinct
15 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
15 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

15 years

Manderville Wilson reported 15 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Wilson in Brazos County

Wilsons elsewhere in Texas

All 213 freedmen named Wilson in Texas

Variations of Wilson

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

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