Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Allen Page, Fayette County, Texas, 1868
Allen Page registered to vote in Fayette County on January 30, 1868. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Allen Page
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Allen Page
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- January 30, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 4 months
- Years in the precinct
- 2 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsAllen Page reported 13 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Page in Fayette County
- Peter Pageborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1855
- 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 57 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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