Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Hart, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Sam Hart registered to vote in Fayette County on August 10, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 14 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.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Sam Hart
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Hart
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hart in Fayette County
- Robert S. Hartborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
Harts 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 37 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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