Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Collins, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Peter Collins registered to vote in Freestone County on August 15, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Peter Collins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Collins
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Collins in Freestone County
- Booker Collinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1867
- Hubbard Collinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1867
- Nepolian Collinsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
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 23 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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