Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Robert Scott, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Robert Scott registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 13, 1867. He reported 23 years in Texas, 12 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
23 years
In Texas
12 years
In the county
about 1844
Reached Texas
11 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1844 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Robert Scott

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Robert Scott
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 13, 1867
Years in Texas
23 years
Years in Fort Bend County
12 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
11 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

11 years

Robert Scott reported 11 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Scott in Fort Bend County

Scotts elsewhere in Texas

All 155 freedmen named Scott 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 17 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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