Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Timothy Bates, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Timothy Bates registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 22, 1867. He reported Virginia 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Timothy Bates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Timothy Bates
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 30 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bates in Brazoria County
- Alexander Batesborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1847
- Benjamin Batesborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1857
Bateses 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 26 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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