Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
G.F. Cook, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
G.F. Cook registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 27, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 5 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
G.F. Cook
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- G.F. Cook
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 27, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 7 years
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsG.F. Cook reported 7 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Cooks 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 40 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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