Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Washington Randell, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Washington Randell registered to vote in Fayette County on July 20, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Washington Randell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Washington Randell
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Randells 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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