Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Washington Fisher, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Washington Fisher registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 15, 1867. He reported 18 years in Texas, 18 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
1849186018621864186618681870
In Fort Bend County
Washington Fisher
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Washington Fisher
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 18 years
Other freedmen named Fisher in Fort Bend County
- Alexander Fisherborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1846
- Alick Fisherreached Texas about 1850
- Austin Fisherreached Texas about 1858
- Wesley Fisherreached Texas about 1859
- Wesley Fisherborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1857
Fishers 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 22 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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