Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Scott Howard, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Scott Howard registered to vote in Fort Bend County on September 7, 1867. He reported 24 years in Texas, 23 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
24 years
In Texas
23 years
In the county
about 1843
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1843 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Scott Howard

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Scott Howard
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
September 7, 1867
Years in Texas
24 years
Years in Fort Bend County
23 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

Scott Howard reported 1 year more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Howard in Fort Bend County

Howards elsewhere in Texas

All 52 freedmen named Howard 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 33 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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