Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

John Fields, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

John Fields registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 16, 1867. He reported 5 years in Texas, 2 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
5 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1862
Reached Texas
3 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From 1860 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

John Fields

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
John Fields
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 16, 1867
Years in Texas
5 years
Years in Fort Bend County
2 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
3 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

3 years

John Fields reported 3 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Fields in Fort Bend County

Fieldses elsewhere in Texas

All 62 freedmen named Fields in Texas

Variations of Fields

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

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