Cameron County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Parker, Cameron County, Texas, 1867
Moses Parker registered to vote in Cameron County on July 27, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Cameron County registered 99 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Moses Parker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Parker
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Cameron County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Cameron County
- 8 months
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Cameron County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsMoses Parker reported 24 years more in Texas than in Cameron County.
Parkers 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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