Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Anderson Brown, Lamar County, Texas, 1867
Anderson Brown registered to vote in Lamar County on July 8, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lamar County registered 772 freedmen in 1867, 30% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
Anderson Brown
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Anderson Brown
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 3 months
- Years in the precinct
- 2 months
- Years in Texas before Lamar County
- 6 years
- Signature, as written
- "N. Lord Forwood"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsAnderson Brown reported 6 years more in Texas than in Lamar County.
Other freedmen named Brown in Lamar County
- Ezekiel Brownborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1862
- Phillip Brownborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1862
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 9 of the Lamar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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