Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Beverly Shaw, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1868

Beverly Shaw registered to vote in Fort Bend County on January 31, 1868. He reported 22 years in Texas, 22 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
22 years
In Texas
22 years
In the county
about 1846
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1846 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Beverly Shaw

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Beverly Shaw
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
January 31, 1868
Years in Texas
22 years
Years in Fort Bend County
22 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Shaw in Fort Bend County

Shaws elsewhere in Texas

All 64 freedmen named Shaw 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 35 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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