Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ambrose Woods, Brazos County, Texas, 1867
Ambrose Woods registered to vote in Brazos County on June 24, 1867. He reported 17 years in Texas, 7 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Ambrose Woods
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ambrose Woods
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- June 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsAmbrose Woods reported 10 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Woodses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Woods
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 7 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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