Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jackson Farquhar, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Jackson Farquhar registered to vote in Fayette County on July 13, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Jackson Farquhar
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jackson Farquhar
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Farquhar in Fayette County
- Sam Farquharborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1855
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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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