Cameron County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abram Adkins, Cameron County, Texas, 1867
Abram Adkins registered to vote in Cameron County on July 24, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 2 of them in Cameron County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Cameron County registered 99 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Abram Adkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abram Adkins
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Cameron County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- July 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Cameron County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 0.75 months
- Years in Texas before Cameron County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsAbram Adkins reported 3 years more in Texas than in Cameron County.
Adkinses 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 3 of the Cameron County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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