Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sammuel Coleman, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Sammuel Coleman registered to vote in Brazoria County on September 28, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 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
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Sammuel Coleman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sammuel Coleman
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- September 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Coleman in Brazoria County
- Alexander Colemanborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1862
- Henry Colemanborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
Colemans 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 35 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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