Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moore Perkins, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Moore Perkins registered to vote in Anderson County on August 28, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Anderson County
Moore Perkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moore Perkins
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Perkins in Anderson County
- Anthony Perkinsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1862
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. Anderson County's entries fill 53 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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