Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Hardy, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Sam Hardy registered to vote in Fayette County on August 23, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas. 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
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Sam Hardy
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Hardy
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsSam Hardy reported 24 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Hardys 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 48 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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