Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
James Perkins, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
James Perkins registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 13, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 27 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
James Perkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- James Perkins
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
27 yearsJames Perkins reported 27 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Perkins in Bastrop County
- Houston Perkinsborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1861
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 18 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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