Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam King, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Sam King registered to vote in Fayette County on August 13, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 13 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
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Sam King
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam King
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named King in Fayette County
- Austin Kingborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Daniel Kingborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1856
- Irving Kingborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1867
- Nathan Kingborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1854
- Rufus Kingborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1854
Kings elsewhere in Texas
Variations of King
- Kinching 6
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 39 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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