Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Mullin, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Peter Mullin registered to vote in Fayette County on August 23, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 16 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.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Peter Mullin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Mullin
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 9 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsPeter Mullin reported 7 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Mullin in Fayette County
- West Mullinborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1847
Variations of Mullin
- Mullins 7
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 49 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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