Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

James Moore, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

James Moore registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 12, 1867. He reported 7 years in Texas, 1 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
7 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1860
Reached Texas
6 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1860 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

James Moore

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
James Moore
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 12, 1867
Years in Texas
7 years
Years in Fort Bend County
1 year
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
6 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

6 years

James Moore reported 6 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Moore in Fort Bend County

Moores elsewhere in Texas

All 197 freedmen named Moore 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 16 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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