Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Rueben Jenkins, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1868

Rueben Jenkins registered to vote in Fort Bend County on January 29, 1868. He reported 23 years in Texas, 3 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
23 years
In Texas
3 years
In the county
about 1845
Reached Texas
20 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1845 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Rueben Jenkins

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Rueben Jenkins
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
January 29, 1868
Years in Texas
23 years
Years in Fort Bend County
3 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
20 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

20 years

Rueben Jenkins reported 20 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

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 34 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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