Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Booker Wilkins, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Booker Wilkins registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 17, 1867. He reported 15 years in Texas, 10 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
15 years
In Texas
10 years
In the county
about 1852
Reached Texas
5 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1852 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Booker Wilkins

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Booker Wilkins
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 17, 1867
Years in Texas
15 years
Years in Fort Bend County
10 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
5 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

5 years

Booker Wilkins reported 5 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Wilkinses elsewhere in Texas

All 12 freedmen named Wilkins in Texas

Variations of Wilkins

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

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