Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Henry Kelser, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Henry Kelser registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 15, 1867. He reported 30 years in Texas, 10 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
10 years
In the county
about 1837
Reached Texas
20 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1837 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Henry Kelser

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Henry Kelser
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 15, 1867
Years in Texas
30 years
Years in Fort Bend County
10 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

Henry Kelser reported 20 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Kelser in Fort Bend County

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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