Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Joseph Robertson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Joseph Robertson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 20,1867. He reported 17 years in Texas, 17 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
17 years
In Texas
17 years
In the county
about 1850
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1850 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Joseph Robertson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Joseph Robertson
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 20,1867
Years in Texas
17 years
Years in Fort Bend County
17 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Robertson in Fort Bend County

Robertsons elsewhere in Texas

All 68 freedmen named Robertson in Texas

Variations of Robertson

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 27 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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