Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Archey Patterson, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Archey Patterson registered to vote in Fayette County on August 17, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 8 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Archey Patterson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Archey Patterson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsArchey Patterson reported 8 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Pattersons 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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