Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sewall Mingo, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Sewall Mingo registered to vote in Fayette County on July 26, 1867. He reported Delaware as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Delaware
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Sewall Mingo
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sewall Mingo
- Place of birth
- Delaware
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Mingo in Fayette County
- Wesley Mingoborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
- William Mingoborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
Mingos 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 24 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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