Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Austin Collins, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Austin Collins registered to vote in Colorado County on August 1, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 30 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Austin Collins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Austin Collins
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 42'
- Registered
- August 1, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 30 years
- Years in the precinct
- 30 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Collins in Colorado County
- Henry Collinsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1859
- John Collinsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1853
- William Collinsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1866
Collinses 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 26 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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