Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
May Dunlap, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
May Dunlap registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 24, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 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
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
May Dunlap
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- May Dunlap
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Dunlap in Brazoria County
- James Dunlapborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Prince Dunlapborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
Dunlaps 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 29 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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