Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willis Madison, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Willis Madison registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 14, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Willis Madison
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willis Madison
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Madison in Brazoria County
- Joseph Madisonborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
Madisons 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 18 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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