Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wyatt Patterson, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Wyatt Patterson registered to vote in Austin County on August 20, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 5 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Wyatt Patterson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wyatt Patterson
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Austin County
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Patterson in Austin County
- Andy Pattersonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1842
- Joseph Pattersonborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1857
- Winn Pattersonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
Pattersons 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 27 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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