Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mark White, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Mark White registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 12, 1867. He reported Virginia 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Brazoria County
Mark White
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mark White
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named White in Brazoria County
- Francis Whiteborn in New Jersey, reached Texas about 1865
- Frank Whiteborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
- John Whiteborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1849
- Lewis G. Whiteborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1861
- Moses Whiteborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1842
Whites 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 13 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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