Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jeremiah Wesley, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Jeremiah Wesley registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 12, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas, 23 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 23 years
- In the county
- about 1844
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Jeremiah Wesley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jeremiah Wesley
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 23 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Wesley in Brazoria County
- Alfred Wesleyborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1855
Wesleys 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 14 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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