Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willaim Vail, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Willaim Vail registered to vote in Fayette County on August 15, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 30 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Willaim Vail
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willaim Vail
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 30 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
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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