Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abraham Horton, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Abraham Horton registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 2, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 30 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Abraham Horton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abraham Horton
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 30 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Horton in Brazoria County
- John Hortonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
Hortons 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 6 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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