Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Mathews, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Robert Mathews registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 3, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 6 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
Robert Mathews
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Mathews
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Brazoria County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearRobert Mathews reported 1 year more in Texas than in Brazoria County.
Other freedmen named Mathews in Brazoria County
- Edmound Mathewsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1860
- Edmund Mathewsborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
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 8 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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