Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alexander Coleman, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Alexander Coleman registered to vote in Brazoria County on September 5, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 5 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Alexander Coleman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alexander Coleman
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- September 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Coleman in Brazoria County
- Henry Colemanborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- Sammuel Colemanborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
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 31 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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