Tarrant County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alexander Holland, Tarrant County, Texas, 1867
Alexander Holland registered to vote in Tarrant County on August 14, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Tarrant County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Tarrant County registered 212 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Alexander Holland
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alexander Holland
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Tarrant County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Tarrant County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Holland in Tarrant County
- Henry Hollandborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1862
Hollands 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 12 of the Tarrant County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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