Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Theodore Carter, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Theodore Carter registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 14, 1867. He reported 41 years in Texas. 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
41 years
In Texas
about 1826
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1826 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Theodore Carter

Texas

The register entry, column by column

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

Other freedmen named Carter in Fort Bend County

Carters elsewhere in Texas

All 139 freedmen named Carter 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 18 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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