Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Asbury Phillips, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Asbury Phillips registered to vote in Fayette County on August 10, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Asbury Phillips
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Asbury Phillips
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Phillips in Fayette County
- Bill Phillipsborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1852
- George T Phillipsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1850
- Joe Phillipsborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
- John Phillipsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1865
- Tom Phillipsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1847
Phillipses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Phillips
- Philips 20
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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