Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lorenzo Dow Ross, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Lorenzo Dow Ross registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 12, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 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
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Brazoria County
Lorenzo Dow Ross
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lorenzo Dow Ross
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Ross in Brazoria County
- Caesar Rossborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1860
- Nelson Rossborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
- William Rossborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1846
- William Rossborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1841
- William Rossborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1843
Rosses 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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