Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
B Gay, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
B Gay registered to vote in Fayette County on July 22, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Fayette County
B Gay
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- B Gay
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gay in Fayette County
- Jack Gayborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1853
- Orange Gayborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1852
- Willis Gayborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1850
Gays 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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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