Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Silas Tenny, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Silas Tenny registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 16, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Silas Tenny
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Silas Tenny
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
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 23 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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