Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

John Dickerson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

John Dickerson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 13, 1867. He reported 25 years in Texas, 25 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
25 years
In Texas
25 years
In the county
about 1842
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1842 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

John Dickerson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
John Dickerson
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 13, 1867
Years in Texas
25 years
Years in Fort Bend County
25 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Dickerson in Fort Bend County

Dickersons elsewhere in Texas

All 14 freedmen named Dickerson in Texas

Variations of Dickerson

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

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