Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Mat Rivers, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Mat Rivers registered to vote in Fayette County on July 18, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 29 years in Texas, 29 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
- 29 years
- In Texas
- 29 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1838 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Mat Rivers
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Mat Rivers
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 29 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 29 years
- Years in the precinct
- 29 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Rivers in Fayette County
- Adam Riversborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1840
- 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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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