Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Elias Brown, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Elias Brown registered to vote in Chambers County on August 20, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 27 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas" beside his name.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 27 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1840 to 1870
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In Chambers County
Elias Brown
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Elias Brown
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 27 years
- Years in the precinct
- 27 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Birth"
- Naturalized, when
- "1823"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Robert McGehee"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas"
Other freedmen named Brown in Chambers County
- Nathaniel Brownborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1827
- Thompson Brownborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1854
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 4 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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