Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Littleton Brooks, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Littleton Brooks registered to vote in Harrison County on July 13, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Littleton Brooks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Littleton Brooks
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year 6 months
- Years in Harrison County
- 1 year 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year 6 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Brooks in Harrison County
- Daniel Brooksborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
- Daniel Brooksborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1847
- John Brooksborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1846
- Manuel Brooksborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1858
- Thomas Brooksborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1854
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 27 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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