Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wilburn James, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Wilburn James registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 24, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 37 years in Texas, 37 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 37 years
- In Texas
- 37 years
- In the county
- about 1830
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1830 to 1870
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In Brazoria County
Wilburn James
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wilburn James
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 37 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 37 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named James in Brazoria County
- Alvis Jamesborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1842
- Charles Jamesborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1847
- Everett Jamesborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1851
- Henry Jamesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Henry Jamesborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1837
Jameses 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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