Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Simon Foster, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869

Simon Foster registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 17, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas, 22 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
Born in Texas, registered in Fort Bend County
Texas
Birthplace
22 years
In Texas
22 years
In the county

What the register records

From about 1847 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Simon Foster

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Simon Foster
Place of birth
Texas
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Precinct
3
Registered
November 17, 1869
Years in Texas
22 years
Years in Fort Bend County
22 years
Years in the precinct
22 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Foster in Fort Bend County

Fosters elsewhere in Texas

All 68 freedmen named Foster 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 35 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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