Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thornton Burrell, Galveston County, Texas, 1867
Thornton Burrell registered to vote in Galveston County on June 15, 1867. He reported 45 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.
- 45 years
- In Texas
- about 1822
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1822 to 1870
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In Galveston County
Thornton Burrell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thornton Burrell
- County of registration
- Galveston County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- June 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 45 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Burrell in Galveston County
- Henry Burrellborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1867
Burrells 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 20 of the Galveston County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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