Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
M Gibson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
M Gibson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 19, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
1852186018621864186618681870
In Fort Bend County
M Gibson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- M Gibson
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 17 years
Other freedmen named Gibson in Fort Bend County
- Abram Gibsonreached Texas about 1856
- Frank Gibsonreached Texas about 1852
- Howard Gibsonreached Texas about 1862
- Joe Gibsonreached Texas about 1866
- Mark Gibsonreached Texas about 1854
Gibsons 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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