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On January 30, 1841 an act passed by the CONGRESS of the REPUBLIC of TEXAS created the County of "Navasota" which name was changed in January 1842 to "Brazos" County by the Congress. The following list contains the names of all the citizens of the County at the above date:

ARNOLD, Holly

BADEN, A. G.

BAILEY, Shepard P.

BARKER, Ezekiel
  Jas. A.

BAYNE, Griffin
  William G.

BOND, George

BOON, James
  Mordicai, Sr.
  Mordicai, Jr.

BOWMAN, James I.
  Thos. Sr.

BURTON, Sam

CARTER, Richard
  Wiley

CATLETT, H.G.

CHANDLER, Eli (Capt.)

COOK, Newton

COOLEY, Stephen

CURD, Isaac W. F.
  Ezekiel

DUNCAN, Charles
  Green
  Mahalo
  Newton
  Thomas

DUNLAP, William

DUNN, Matthew

ELLIE, W. L.

ELLISON, Jesse
  Martin

EVETTS, Jas. H.

FARQUHAR, Jas.
  Wm.

FERGUSON, Joseph
  Robert M.

FITCH, .........

GHOLSON, Albert

GILBREATH, John A.

HANNA, Jas. M.

HANOVER, Hiram

HAVESON, .....

HEAD, Ezra
  Jesse
  Jas. A. (Judge)

HENRY, Hugh
  Robert

HIGGS, George

HUDSON, H. G.
  Leonard
  S. E. W.

HUNT, Bob

JOHNSON, Gabriel
  Robert
  Samuel

JONES, Allen C.
  John H. (Capt.)
  Thos. (Mrs.)

KILLGORE, Charles

KING, Miles
  Wm. Jr.

LANGHAM, Melvan

LEWIS, William
  Wm. J.

LYONS, Joseph

MATHER, ......Lieut.

MAYFIELD, Wm.

MIDDLETON, Perry
  Saml. W.
  Wash

MILLICAN, Daniel
  Diadem
  Elliott M.
  Groves
  J. D.
  John
  John H.
  Bytile (Lyttle)
  William
  Wm. T.
  Willis

MITCHELL, H.

MORGAN, G.W.

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McCARTY, Jas.

McDONALD, Jas.
  Elisha
  Richard

McGAHEY, Alex
  Jas.

McMILLAN, Andrew
  George
  James

McMAHAN, Andrew

NANNIE, Chas.

NEEDHAM, John

NEVILLE, Harden

NEWBERRY, Wiley

NEWTON, John

OVERTON, J. H.

OWENS, William

PRICE, James M.
  William C.

PRUITT, Henry
  Robert

REED, Jefferson
  Michael
  William
  Wilson

ROBERTS, W. W.

ROBINSON, Alf
  J. T.

SCOTT, Moses

SEALE, C. C.
  Eli ( Maj.)
  J. A.
  Joshua

SMITH, Lee C.

STUART, Wm. S.

VESS, William

VIOLET, .......

WALKER, AndrewG
  Gideon
  Sanders
  Skeough
  Thomas
  William

WHITE, John

WICKSON, Barnabas
  Byrum
  Cyrus
  Eli
  Frank

WILLIAMS, John
  Jonathan

WOOTEN, T. J. (Mrs. Dr. )

YOUNG, Wm.

(Quote:)

"In addition to these there may have been a few single men living for the time being, with some of the above named families, and also quite a number of minor sons, old enough to perform military duty when called for their service, still residing with their parents."

Saml. W. Middleton, Chief Justice
E. M. Millican, Sheriff and Collector
J. D. Overton, District Clerk
James I. Bowen, County Clerk
Wilson Reed, County Treasurer
H. G. Hudson, Cornerer (Coroner?)

In the act creating the County Wm. T. Millican, Capt. J. H. Jones, Joseph Ferguson, Maj. Eli Seale and Mordicai Boon, Sr. were appointed to select and negotiate for a suitable tract of land as near as practicable to the center of the county, for a permanent county seat......"

(The above first "census" list and quotation were taken from original manuscript in the handwriting of Col. Harvey Mitchell - who later in 1853 and 1854 was Chief Justice of the county. This manuscript giving details of the organization of BRAZOS COUNTY is now owned by Col. Harvey's grand-daughter Miss Wesa Weddington of Bryan, Texas.)