Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Griffin, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Jim Griffin registered to vote in Fayette County on July 12, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 25 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.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Jim Griffin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Griffin
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsJim Griffin reported 11 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Griffin in Fayette County
- Andrew Griffinborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1854
Griffins 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 9 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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