Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joesph Mills, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Joesph Mills registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 12, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Brazoria County
Joesph Mills
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joesph Mills
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Mills in Brazoria County
- Andrew Millsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1840
- Dempsey Millsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
- James Millsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1845
- Mark Millsborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1854
Millses 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. Brazoria County's entries fill 41 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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