Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Alick Saunders, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Alick Saunders registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 22, 1867. He reported 10 years in Texas, 4 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
10 years
In Texas
4 years
In the county
about 1857
Reached Texas
6 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1857 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Alick Saunders

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Alick Saunders
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 22, 1867
Years in Texas
10 years
Years in Fort Bend County
4 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
6 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

6 years

Alick Saunders reported 6 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Saunderses elsewhere in Texas

All 16 freedmen named Saunders in Texas

Variations of Saunders

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

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