Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Phil Ruffin, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Phil Ruffin registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 14, 1867. He reported 20 years in Texas, 14 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
1847186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County
Phil Ruffin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Phil Ruffin
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 14 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 6 years
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsPhil Ruffin reported 6 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Ruffins 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 20 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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