Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Barrett, Brazoria County, Texas, 1869
Sam Barrett registered to vote in Brazoria County on November 24, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Sam Barrett
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Barrett
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Barrett in Brazoria County
- John Barrettborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1847
- Wyatt Barrettborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1849
Barretts 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 39 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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