Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Squire Taylor, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Squire Taylor registered to vote in Fayette County on August 12, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 7 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
Squire Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Squire Taylor
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years 6 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Taylor in Fayette County
- Andrew Taylorborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
- Buck Taylorborn in Ohio, reached Texas about 1833
- Warren Taylorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1860
- William H. Taylorborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- Willis Taylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1854
Taylors 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 39 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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