Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alexander Bates, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Alexander Bates registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 14, 1867. He reported Texas 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.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Brazoria County
Alexander Bates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alexander Bates
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bates in Brazoria County
- 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 18 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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