Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Primeous Burton, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869

Primeous Burton registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 25, 1869. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas, 12 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 North Carolina and Texas marked
Born in North Carolina, registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
North Carolina
Birthplace
22 years
In Texas
12 years
In the county
about 1847
Reached Texas
10 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1847 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Primeous Burton

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Primeous Burton
Place of birth
North Carolina
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Precinct
2
Registered
November 25, 1869
Years in Texas
22 years
Years in Fort Bend County
12 years
Years in the precinct
10 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
10 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

10 years

Primeous Burton reported 10 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Burton in Fort Bend County

Burtons elsewhere in Texas

All 36 freedmen named Burton 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 39 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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