Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Presly Thornton, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869

Presly Thornton registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 29, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 30 years 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 Virginia and Texas marked
Born in Virginia, registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
Virginia
Birthplace
30 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1839
Reached Texas
29 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1839 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Presly Thornton

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Presly Thornton
Place of birth
Virginia
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Precinct
4
Registered
November 29, 1869
Years in Texas
30 years
Years in Fort Bend County
1 year
Years in the precinct
1 year
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

Presly Thornton reported 29 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Thornton in Fort Bend County

Thorntons elsewhere in Texas

All 18 freedmen named Thornton 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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