Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Jefferson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Moses Jefferson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 22, 1867. He reported 8 years in Texas, 8 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Fort Bend County
Moses Jefferson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Jefferson
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 8 years
Other freedmen named Jefferson in Fort Bend County
- Harrison Jeffersonreached Texas about 1847
- Ison Jeffersonreached Texas about 1866
- Peter Jeffersonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1859
- Thomas Jeffersonreached Texas about 1864
- Tobe Jeffersonreached Texas about 1866
Jeffersons elsewhere 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 28 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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