Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abram Payne, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Abram Payne registered to vote in Fayette County on August 16, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 20 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Abram Payne
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abram Payne
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsAbram Payne reported 10 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Paynes 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 44 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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