Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Adam Jenkins, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Adam Jenkins registered to vote in Walker County on August 27, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
Adam Jenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Adam Jenkins
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Walker County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Years in Texas before Walker County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsAdam Jenkins reported 6 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
Other freedmen named Jenkins in Walker County
- Albert Jenkinsborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1851
- Collen Jenkinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
- Dallas Jenkinsborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
- Gus Jenkinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
- Mashack Jenkinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1854
Jenkinses 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 22 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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