Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Friley Sutton, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Friley Sutton registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 14, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 5 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Friley Sutton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Friley Sutton
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sutton in Brazoria County
- Monroe Suttonborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1863
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. Brazoria County's entries fill 41 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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