Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wesley Moore, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Wesley Moore registered to vote in Brazoria County on September 28, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 30 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
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Wesley Moore
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wesley Moore
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- September 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 30 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Moore in Brazoria County
- Adam Mooreborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1850
- Brister Mooreborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1856
- Sammuel Mooreborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1859
Moores 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 35 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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