Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Green Porter, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Green Porter registered to vote in Fayette County on July 16, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Green Porter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Green Porter
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Porter in Fayette County
- Henry Porterborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1837
- Slanton Porterborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1855
- William Porterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1840
Porters 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 13 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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