Atascosa County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Perkins, Atascosa County, Texas, 1869
Peter Perkins registered to vote in Atascosa County on November 16, 1869. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Atascosa County registered 30 freedmen in 1867, 6% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Peter Perkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Perkins
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Atascosa County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Atascosa County
- 10 months
- Years in the precinct
- 10 months
- Years in Texas before Atascosa County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsPeter Perkins reported 13 years more in Texas than in Atascosa County.
Perkinses 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 9 of the Atascosa County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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