Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abraham Bee, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Abraham Bee registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 12, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas, 25 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 25 years
- In the county
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Abraham Bee
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abraham Bee
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 25 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bee in Brazoria County
- Benjamin Beeborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1845
- Benjamin Beeborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1845
- Primus Beeborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
Bees 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 13 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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