Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Sam Lewis, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Sam Lewis registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 14, 1867. He reported 21 years in Texas, 21 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
21 years
In Texas
21 years
In the county
about 1846
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1846 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Sam Lewis

Texas

The register entry, column by column

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

Other freedmen named Lewis in Fort Bend County

Lewises elsewhere in Texas

All 197 freedmen named Lewis 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 18 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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