Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lawrence French, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Lawrence French registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 3, 1867. He reported Mississippi 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.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Lawrence French
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lawrence French
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named French in Brazoria County
- Brisco Frenchborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
- Lawrence Frenchborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
Frenches 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 7 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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