Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mat Spencer, Brazoria County, Texas, 1869
Mat Spencer registered to vote in Brazoria County on November 20, 1869. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Mat Spencer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mat Spencer
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Spencer in Brazoria County
- Matthew Spencerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
Spencers 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 38 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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