Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Monroe Sutton, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Monroe Sutton registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 14, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Monroe Sutton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Monroe Sutton
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sutton in Brazoria County
- Friley Suttonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1862
Suttons 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 18 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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