Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Amistead Vaun, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Amistead Vaun registered to vote in Fayette County on July 11, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Amistead Vaun
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Amistead Vaun
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Vaun in Fayette County
- Fields Vaunborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1850
Vauns 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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