Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Joe Harris, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Joe Harris registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 24, 1867. He reported 27 years in Texas, 26 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
27 years
In Texas
26 years
In the county
about 1840
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1840 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Joe Harris

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Joe Harris
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 24, 1867
Years in Texas
27 years
Years in Fort Bend County
26 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
1 year
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

1 year

Joe Harris reported 1 year more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Harris in Fort Bend County

Harrises elsewhere in Texas

All 182 freedmen named Harris in Texas

Variations of Harris

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 29 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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