Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Alex McLaughlin, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869

Alex McLaughlin registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 27, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 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 Mississippi and Texas marked
Born in Mississippi, registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
Mississippi
Birthplace
16 years
In Texas
16 years
In the county
about 1853
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1853 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Alex McLaughlin

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Alex McLaughlin
Place of birth
Mississippi
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Precinct
2
Registered
November 27, 1869
Years in Texas
16 years
Years in Fort Bend County
16 years
Years in the precinct
16 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named McLaughlin in Fort Bend County

McLaughlins elsewhere in Texas

All 3 freedmen named McLaughlin 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 40 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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