Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Silas Poter, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Silas Poter registered to vote in Fayette County on September 28, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 7 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Silas Poter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Silas Poter
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- September 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsSilas Poter reported 8 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
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 55 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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