Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Halston Knight, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Halston Knight registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 14, 1867. He reported Maryland 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.
- Maryland
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Halston Knight
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Halston Knight
- Place of birth
- Maryland
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Knight in Brazoria County
- James Knightborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1849
Knights 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 16 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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