Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Ben Lewis, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Ben Lewis registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 15, 1867. He reported 22 years in Texas, 22 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
22 years
In Texas
22 years
In the county
about 1845
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1845 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Ben Lewis

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Ben Lewis
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 15, 1867
Years in Texas
22 years
Years in Fort Bend County
22 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 21 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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