Collin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alber Sterns, Collin County, Texas, 1867
Alber Sterns registered to vote in Collin County on Aug. 24 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Collin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Collin County registered 270 freedmen in 1867, 15% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Collin County
Alber Sterns
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alber Sterns
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Collin County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- Aug. 24 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Collin County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Sternses 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. Collin County's entries fill 46 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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