Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Drew Branch, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Drew Branch registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 14, 1867. He reported 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
9 years
In Texas
9 years
In the county
about 1858
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1858 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Drew Branch

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Drew Branch
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 14, 1867
Years in Texas
9 years
Years in Fort Bend County
9 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Branch in Fort Bend County

Branches elsewhere in Texas

All 37 freedmen named Branch 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 20 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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