Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jerry Nelson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Jerry Nelson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on September 27, 1867. He reported 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Fort Bend County
Jerry Nelson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jerry Nelson
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- September 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 16 years
Other freedmen named Nelson in Fort Bend County
- John Nelsonreached Texas about 1866
- John Nelsonreached Texas about 1862
- William Nelsonreached Texas about 1856
Nelsons elsewhere 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 33 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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