Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Mathews, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Edmund Mathews registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 3, 1867. He reported North Carolina 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.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Edmund Mathews
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Mathews
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Mathews in Brazoria County
- Edmound Mathewsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1860
- Robert Mathewsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1860
Mathewses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Mathews
- Matthews 20
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 7 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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