Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Brooks, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Brooks registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 12, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 24 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 24 years
- In Texas
- 23 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1843 to 1870
Samuel Brooks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Brooks
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Bastrop County
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 24 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 23 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
23 yearsSamuel Brooks reported 23 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Brooks in Bastrop County
- Alfred Brooksborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1840
- Caswell Brooksborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1842
- Louis Brooksborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1857
Brookses 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 15 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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