Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Primas Gates, Fayette County, Texas, 1868
Primas Gates registered to vote in Fayette County on January 31, 1868. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 17 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
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Primas Gates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Primas Gates
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 17 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearPrimas Gates reported 1 year more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Gates in Fayette County
- Frank Gatesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
- Henry Gatesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
- Isaac Gatesborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1850
- Johnson Gatesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1861
- Lem Gatesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
Gateses 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 57 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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