Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

John Diggs, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

John Diggs registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 12, 1867. He reported 16 years in Texas, 16 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
16 years
In Texas
16 years
In the county
about 1851
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1851 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

John Diggs

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
John Diggs
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 12, 1867
Years in Texas
16 years
Years in Fort Bend County
16 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Diggs in Fort Bend County

Diggses elsewhere in Texas

All 9 freedmen named Diggs 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 16 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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