Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Abe Smith, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Abe Smith registered to vote in Fort Bend County on July 30, 1867. He reported 1 year in Texas, 1 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
1 year
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1866
Reached Texas

What the register records

From 1860 to 1870

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In Fort Bend County

Abe Smith

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Abe Smith
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
July 30, 1867
Years in Texas
1 year
Years in Fort Bend County
1 year
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Smith in Fort Bend County

Smiths elsewhere in Texas

All 459 freedmen named Smith 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 1 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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