Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abram Brown, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Abram Brown registered to vote in Fayette County on July 22, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 18 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Abram Brown
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abram Brown
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 18 years
- Years in the precinct
- 18 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearAbram Brown reported 1 year more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Brown in Fayette County
- Abram Brownborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1834
- Anderson Brownborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1851
- Augustus Brownborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
- Ben Brownborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1851
- Charles Brownborn in Mississippi
Browns 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 20 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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