Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henry Norton, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Henry Norton registered to vote in Fayette County on August 14, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 21 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
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Henry Norton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henry Norton
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 21 years
- Years in the precinct
- 21 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Norton in Fayette County
- Dick Nortonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1832
Nortons 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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