Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Andrew Griffin, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Andrew Griffin registered to vote in Fayette County on August 15, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Andrew Griffin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Andrew Griffin
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsAndrew Griffin reported 12 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Griffin in Fayette County
- Jim Griffinborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1842
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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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