Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joshua Sipkins, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Joshua Sipkins registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 21, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 40 years in Texas, 40 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
- 40 years
- In Texas
- 40 years
- In the county
- about 1827
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1827 to 1870
Joshua Sipkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joshua Sipkins
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 40 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 40 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sipkins in Brazoria County
- Levi Sipkinsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1828
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. Brazoria County's entries fill 41 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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