Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Pomp Scanton, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Pomp Scanton registered to vote in Fayette County on July 31, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 27 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
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 27 years
- In the county
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Pomp Scanton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Pomp Scanton
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 27 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearPomp Scanton reported 1 year 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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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