Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
John Calvin, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
John Calvin registered to vote in Brazoria County on September 24, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- John Calvin
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- September 24, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Calvin in Brazoria County
- John Calvinborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1849
Calvins 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 34 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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