Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

William Griffin, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

William Griffin registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 14, 1867. He reported 30 years in Texas, 1 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
Registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
30 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1837
Reached Texas
29 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1837 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

William Griffin

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
William Griffin
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 14, 1867
Years in Texas
30 years
Years in Fort Bend County
1 year
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
29 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

29 years

William Griffin reported 29 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Griffin in Fort Bend County

Griffins elsewhere in Texas

All 64 freedmen named Griffin 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 20 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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