Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
William McCane, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
William McCane registered to vote in Fayette County on November 25, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
William McCane
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- William McCane
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
McCanes 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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