Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Anthony Perkins, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Anthony Perkins registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 2, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Anthony Perkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Anthony Perkins
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Perkins in Brazoria County
- Washington Perkinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1847
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 6 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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