Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Adam Rivers, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Adam Rivers registered to vote in Fayette County on July 18, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 27 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.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1840 to 1870
Adam Rivers
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Adam Rivers
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 16 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsAdam Rivers reported 11 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Rivers in Fayette County
- Mat Riversborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1838
- Tom Riversborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1828
Riverses 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 16 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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