Parker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Parker, Parker County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Parker registered to vote in Parker County on August 10, 1867. He reported Maryland as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Parker County registered 81 freedmen in 1867, 10% of its voters.
- Maryland
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Thomas Parker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Parker
- Place of birth
- Maryland
- County of registration
- Parker County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Parker County
- 2 months
- Years in the precinct
- 2 months
- Years in Texas before Parker County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsThomas Parker reported 2 years more in Texas than in Parker County.
Parkers 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 7 of the Parker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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