Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joe Burton, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Joe Burton registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 15, 1867. He reported 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Fort Bend County
Joe Burton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joe Burton
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 10 years
Other freedmen named Burton in Fort Bend County
- Abner Burtonreached Texas about 1866
- Henry Burtonreached Texas about 1866
- Henry Burtonreached Texas about 1866
- Hiram Burtonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1847
- Isaiah Burtonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1857
Burtons 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 20 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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