Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Holland Sherman, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Holland Sherman registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 1, 1867. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Holland Sherman
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 1, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sherman in Brazoria County
- Holland Shermanborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1852
Shermans 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 4 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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