Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joshua Hunter, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Joshua Hunter registered to vote in Fayette County on August 16, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 13 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
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 17 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Joshua Hunter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joshua Hunter
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
17 yearsJoshua Hunter reported 17 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Hunter in Fayette County
- Ceasar Hunterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- John Hunterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
- Sam Hunterborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
Hunters 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 45 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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