Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Alph Thompson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Alph Thompson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 15, 1867. He reported 41 years in Texas, 12 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
41 years
In Texas
12 years
In the county
about 1826
Reached Texas
29 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1826 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Alph Thompson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Alph Thompson
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 15, 1867
Years in Texas
41 years
Years in Fort Bend County
12 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
29 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

29 years

Alph Thompson reported 29 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Thompson in Fort Bend County

Thompsons elsewhere in Texas

All 165 freedmen named Thompson in Texas

Variations of Thompson

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

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