Madison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Leander Brooks, Madison County, Texas, 1869
Leander Brooks registered to vote in Madison County on November 19, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Madison County registered 254 freedmen in 1867, 40% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 22 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Leander Brooks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Leander Brooks
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Madison County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Madison County
- 10 months
- Years in the precinct
- 10 months
- Years in Texas before Madison County
- 22 years
- Signature, as written
- "Isaac Arnold"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
22 yearsLeander Brooks reported 22 years more in Texas than in Madison County.
Other freedmen named Brooks in Madison County
- Cezar Brooksborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
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 13 of the Madison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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