Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joe Smart, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Joe Smart registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 29, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 4 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Joe Smart
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joe Smart
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 29, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 2 years
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsJoe Smart reported 2 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Other freedmen named Smart in Fort Bend County
- Joe Smartreached Texas about 1862
Smarts 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 42 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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