Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Natt Butler, Brazoria County, Texas, 1868
Natt Butler registered to vote in Brazoria County on January 29, 1868. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Natt Butler
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Natt Butler
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- January 29, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Butler in Brazoria County
- Election Butlerborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1860
- James Butlerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1857
Butlers 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 36 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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