Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
W Words, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
W Words registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 27, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 4 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- 17 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
W Words
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- W Words
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 27, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 17 years
Elsewhere in Texas
17 yearsW Words reported 17 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Variations of Words
- Word 6
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. Fort Bend County's entries fill 42 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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