Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Jacob Stewart, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Jacob Stewart registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 26, 1867. He reported 40 years in Texas, 3 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
40 years
In Texas
3 years
In the county
about 1827
Reached Texas
37 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1827 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Jacob Stewart

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Jacob Stewart
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 26, 1867
Years in Texas
40 years
Years in Fort Bend County
3 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
37 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

37 years

Jacob Stewart reported 37 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Stewart in Fort Bend County

Stewarts elsewhere in Texas

All 59 freedmen named Stewart in Texas

Variations of Stewart

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

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