Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Isaac Newton, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869

Isaac Newton registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 20, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 28 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 Tennessee and Texas marked
Born in Tennessee, registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
Tennessee
Birthplace
28 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1841
Reached Texas
27 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1841 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Isaac Newton

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Isaac Newton
Place of birth
Tennessee
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Precinct
3
Registered
November 20, 1869
Years in Texas
28 years
Years in Fort Bend County
1 year
Years in the precinct
1 year
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
27 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

27 years

Isaac Newton reported 27 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Newton in Fort Bend County

Newtons elsewhere in Texas

All 16 freedmen named Newton 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 37 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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