Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lambest Carter, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Lambest Carter registered to vote in Fayette County on July 31, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 2 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
Lambest Carter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lambest Carter
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 2 years 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsLambest Carter reported 7 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Carter in Fayette County
- Charles Carterborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1839
- George Carterborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
- Willis Carterborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1840
Carters 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 30 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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