Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Louis Washington, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869

Louis Washington registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 19, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 6 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 Louisiana and Texas marked
Born in Louisiana, registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
Louisiana
Birthplace
15 years
In Texas
6 years
In the county
about 1854
Reached Texas
9 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1854 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Louis Washington

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Louis Washington
Place of birth
Louisiana
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Precinct
3
Registered
November 19, 1869
Years in Texas
15 years
Years in Fort Bend County
6 years
Years in the precinct
4 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
9 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

9 years

Louis Washington reported 9 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Washington in Fort Bend County

Washingtons elsewhere in Texas

All 262 freedmen named Washington 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 36 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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