Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wells Gordan, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Wells Gordan registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 15, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Wells Gordan
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wells Gordan
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gordan in Brazoria County
- Isaac Gordanborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1862
Gordans 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 21 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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