Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jeremiah Reeves, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Jeremiah Reeves registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 24, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 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
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Jeremiah Reeves
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jeremiah Reeves
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Reeves in Brazoria County
- Henry Reevesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1844
- Simon Reevesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1859
Reeveses 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 29 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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