Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Amos Lawson, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Amos Lawson registered to vote in Fayette County on August 8, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 27 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
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 27 years
- In the county
- about 1840
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1840 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Amos Lawson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Amos Lawson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 27 years
- Years in the precinct
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Lawson in Fayette County
- Jasper Lawsonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1858
Lawsons 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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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