Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

James Taylor, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

James Taylor registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 12, 1867. He reported 25 years in Texas, 4 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
25 years
In Texas
4 years
In the county
about 1842
Reached Texas
21 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1842 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

James Taylor

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
James Taylor
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 12, 1867
Years in Texas
25 years
Years in Fort Bend County
4 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
21 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

21 years

James Taylor reported 21 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Taylor in Fort Bend County

Taylors elsewhere in Texas

All 259 freedmen named Taylor 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 16 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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