Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Base Browning, Wood County, Texas, 1867
Base Browning registered to vote in Wood County on July 27, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
1852186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Wood County
Base Browning
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Base Browning
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Wood County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Wood County
- 14 years
- Signature, as written
- "Bart his X mark Brummey"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsBase Browning reported 14 years more in Texas than in Wood County.
Brownings 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 7 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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