Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Thomas Jefferson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Thomas Jefferson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 15, 1867. He reported 3 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 Texas marked
Registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
3 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1864
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From 1860 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Thomas Jefferson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Thomas Jefferson
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 15, 1867
Years in Texas
3 years
Years in Fort Bend County
2 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

Thomas Jefferson reported 1 year more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Jefferson in Fort Bend County

Jeffersons elsewhere in Texas

All 86 freedmen named Jefferson 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 21 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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