Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thornton Spiller, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Thornton Spiller registered to vote in Brazoria County on July 31, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 18 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Thornton Spiller
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thornton Spiller
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 18 years
- Years in the precinct
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Spiller in Brazoria County
- Thorton Spillerborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1851
Spillers 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 2 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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