Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benny Earles, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Benny Earles registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 2, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Brazoria County
Benny Earles
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benny Earles
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Earles in Brazoria County
- James Earlesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1840
Earleses 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. Brazoria County's entries fill 41 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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