Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nelson Perkins, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Nelson Perkins registered to vote in Harrison County on August 3, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Nelson Perkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nelson Perkins
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Signature, as written
- "A. Perkins"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Perkins in Harrison County
- Cain Perkinsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
- Charles Perkinsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1846
- James Perkinsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1866
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 57 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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