Cameron County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Billingsley, Cameron County, Texas, 1867
Peter Billingsley registered to vote in Cameron County on August 12, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 2 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.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1865
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Cameron County
Peter Billingsley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Billingsley
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Cameron County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Cameron County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Billingsley in Cameron County
- Morris Billingsleyborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1857
Billingsleys 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 Cameron County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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