Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Fred Benjamin, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Fred Benjamin registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 12, 1867. He reported 8 years in Texas, 8 of them in Fort Bend County. The registrar wrote "Colored. Killed" beside his name. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Fort Bend County
Fred Benjamin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Fred Benjamin
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored. Killed"
Other freedmen named Benjamin in Fort Bend County
- Fred Benjaminreached Texas about 1859
Benjamins 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 15 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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