Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Elias Perkins, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Elias Perkins registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 26, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
1854186018621864186618681870
In Fort Bend County
Elias Perkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Elias Perkins
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
Other freedmen named Perkins in Fort Bend County
- Albert Perkinsreached Texas about 1858
- John Perkinsreached Texas about 1866
- Julius Perkinsreached Texas about 1852
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 40 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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