Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sammuel Anderson, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Sammuel Anderson registered to vote in Brazoria County on September 26, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
Sammuel Anderson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sammuel Anderson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- September 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Anderson in Brazoria County
- Charles Andersonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1851
- George Andersonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
- Isaac Andersonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1841
- Mannuel Andersonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1862
- Milton Andersonborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1863
Andersons elsewhere 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 34 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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