Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sammuel Houston, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Sammuel Houston registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 12, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Sammuel Houston
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sammuel Houston
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Houston in Brazoria County
- John Houstonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
Houstons 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 13 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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