Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Page, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Peter Page registered to vote in Fayette County on July 12, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 12 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
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Peter Page
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Page
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Page in Fayette County
- Allen Pageborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1854
- Russell Pageborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1860
Pages 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 9 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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