Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sawney Brown, Wood County, Texas, 1867
Sawney Brown registered to vote in Wood County on August 9, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Wood County. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Wood County
Sawney Brown
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sawney Brown
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Wood County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Tawney his X mark Brown"
Browns 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 16 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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