Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jefferson Gay, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Jefferson Gay registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 12, 1867. He reported 41 years in Texas, 25 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 41 years
- In Texas
- 25 years
- In the county
- about 1826
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1826 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County
Jefferson Gay
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jefferson Gay
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 41 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 25 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 16 years
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsJefferson Gay reported 16 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Gays 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 15 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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