Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dick Gussett, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Dick Gussett registered to vote in Fayette County on July 23, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 5 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
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Dick Gussett
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dick Gussett
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsDick Gussett reported 3 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
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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