Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sandy Perkins, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Sandy Perkins registered to vote in Bexar County on July 3, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- about 1865
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Sandy Perkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sandy Perkins
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearSandy Perkins reported 1 year more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Other freedmen named Perkins in Bexar County
- Andrew Perkinsborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1855
- Peter Perkinsborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1855
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 5 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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