Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Charles Allen, Fayette County, Texas, 1867

Charles Allen registered to vote in Fayette County on July 8, 1867. He reported 21 years in Texas, 10 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Fayette County, Texas
21 years
In Texas
10 years
In the county
about 1846
Reached Texas
11 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1846 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fayette County

Charles Allen

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Charles Allen
County of registration
Fayette County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 8, 1867
Years in Texas
21 years
Years in Fayette County
10 years
Years in the precinct
10 years
Years in Texas before Fayette County
11 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fayette County highlighted
Fayette County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

11 years

Charles Allen reported 11 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.

Other freedmen named Allen in Fayette County

Allens elsewhere in Texas

All 119 freedmen named Allen 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 Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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