Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Andrew Taylor, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Andrew Taylor registered to vote in Fayette County on September 28, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 16 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.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Andrew Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Andrew Taylor
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- September 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Taylor in Fayette County
- Buck Taylorborn in Ohio, reached Texas about 1833
- Squire Taylorborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1860
- 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 56 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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