Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Booker Collins, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Booker Collins registered to vote in Freestone County on August 2, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Booker Collins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Booker Collins
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Collins in Freestone County
- Hubbard Collinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1867
- Nepolian Collinsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
- Peter Collinsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
Collinses 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 14 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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