Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

James A Burks, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1868

James A Burks registered to vote in Fort Bend County on January 31, 1868. He reported 16 years in Texas, 8 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
16 years
In Texas
8 years
In the county
about 1852
Reached Texas
8 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1852 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

James A Burks

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
James A Burks
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
January 31, 1868
Years in Texas
16 years
Years in Fort Bend County
8 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
8 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

8 years

James A Burks reported 8 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

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 35 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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