Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jesse Hall, Fayette County, Texas, 1868
Jesse Hall registered to vote in Fayette County on January 31, 1868. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 4 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Jesse Hall
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jesse Hall
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsJesse Hall reported 10 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Hall in Fayette County
- Bradford Hallborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1862
- Hugh Hallborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1862
- Jack Hallborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1855
Halls 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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