Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Spencer Webster, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Spencer Webster registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 25, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 3 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Spencer Webster
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Spencer Webster
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 4 years
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsSpencer Webster reported 4 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Websters elsewhere 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 39 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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