Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Tyler, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Tyler registered to vote in Brazoria County on September 25, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 21 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
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In Brazoria County
Thomas Tyler
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Tyler
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- September 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 21 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Tyler in Brazoria County
- John Tylerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
- Scripio Tylerborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1847
Tylers 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 34 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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