Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Newman, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Edmund Newman registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 12, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Brazoria County
Edmund Newman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Newman
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Newman in Brazoria County
- Charles Newmanborn in Illinois, reached Texas about 1837
Newmans 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 13 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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