Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lemuel Armstrong, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Lemuel Armstrong registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 23, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 30 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
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Lemuel Armstrong
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lemuel Armstrong
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 30 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Armstrong in Brazoria County
- Henry Armstrongborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1845
- Robert Armstrongborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1839
Armstrongs 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 28 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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