Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

David Jenkins, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

David Jenkins registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 14, 1867. He reported 30 years in Texas, 30 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
30 years
In Texas
30 years
In the county
about 1837
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1837 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

David Jenkins

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
David Jenkins
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 14, 1867
Years in Texas
30 years
Years in Fort Bend County
30 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Jenkins in Fort Bend County

Jenkinses elsewhere in Texas

All 57 freedmen named Jenkins 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 19 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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