Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Moon, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Thomas Moon registered to vote in Fayette County on November 19, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 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
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Thomas Moon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Moon
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Moons 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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