Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

David Roberson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1868

David Roberson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on January 27, 1868. He reported 20 years in Texas, 3 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
20 years
In Texas
3 years
In the county
about 1848
Reached Texas
17 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1848 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

David Roberson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
David Roberson
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
January 27, 1868
Years in Texas
20 years
Years in Fort Bend County
3 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
17 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

17 years

David Roberson reported 17 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Roberson in Fort Bend County

Robersons elsewhere in Texas

All 32 freedmen named Roberson in Texas

Variations of Roberson

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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