Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Wm Henderson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869

Wm Henderson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 20, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 2 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 Tennessee and Texas marked
Born in Tennessee, registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
Tennessee
Birthplace
15 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1854
Reached Texas
13 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1854 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Wm Henderson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Wm Henderson
Place of birth
Tennessee
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Precinct
3
Registered
November 20, 1869
Years in Texas
15 years
Years in Fort Bend County
2 years
Years in the precinct
2 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
13 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

13 years

Wm Henderson reported 13 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Henderson in Fort Bend County

Hendersons elsewhere in Texas

All 114 freedmen named Henderson 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 37 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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