Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Washington Love, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Washington Love registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 15, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 19 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 19 years
- In the county
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Washington Love
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Washington Love
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Love in Brazoria County
- Abram Loveborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1851
- Charles Loveborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1840
Loves 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 20 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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