Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sandy Peyton, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Sandy Peyton registered to vote in Colorado County on August 8, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Sandy Peyton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sandy Peyton
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Peyton in Colorado County
- Henry Peytonreached Texas about 1861
- Joseph Peytonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
Peytons 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 33 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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