Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Madison Rick, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Madison Rick registered to vote in Fayette County on August 16, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Madison Rick
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Madison Rick
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 3 months
- Years in the precinct
- 3 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsMadison Rick reported 9 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Variations of Rick
- Ricks 13
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 45 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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