Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Levi Mobbin, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Levi Mobbin registered to vote in Fayette County on August 14, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 24 years in Texas, 23 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 24 years
- In Texas
- 23 years
- In the county
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1843 to 1870
Levi Mobbin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Levi Mobbin
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 24 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 23 years 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearLevi Mobbin reported 1 year more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Mobbin in Fayette County
- Murray Mobbinborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1847
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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