Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Jesse Oliver, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Jesse Oliver registered to vote in Fort Bend County on September 7, 1867. He reported 33 years in Texas, 2 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
33 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1834
Reached Texas
31 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1834 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Jesse Oliver

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Jesse Oliver
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
September 7, 1867
Years in Texas
33 years
Years in Fort Bend County
2 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
31 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

31 years

Jesse Oliver reported 31 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Oliver in Fort Bend County

Olivers elsewhere in Texas

All 42 freedmen named Oliver 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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