Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alexander Fisher, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Alexander Fisher registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 20, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas, 23 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 23 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
1846186018621864186618681870
In Fort Bend County
Alexander Fisher
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alexander Fisher
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 23 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
Other freedmen named Fisher in Fort Bend County
- Alick Fisherreached Texas about 1850
- Austin Fisherreached Texas about 1858
- Washington Fisherreached Texas about 1849
- 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. Fort Bend County's entries fill 42 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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