Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Anthony Brigham, Hunt County, Texas, 1867
Anthony Brigham registered to vote in Hunt County on July 20, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Anthony Brigham
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Anthony Brigham
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Hunt County
- 20 years
- Signature, as written
- "Anthony X Brigham " ""
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsAnthony Brigham reported 20 years more in Texas than in Hunt County.
Other freedmen named Brigham in Hunt County
- John Brighamborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1846
- Thomas Brighamborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
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 4 of the Hunt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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