Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Berry Milligan, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Berry Milligan registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 3, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 27 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
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 27 years
- In the county
- about 1840
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1840 to 1870
Berry Milligan
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Berry Milligan
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Milligan in Brazoria County
- Calvin Milliganborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1843
Milligans 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 8 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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