Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Jenkins, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Robert Jenkins registered to vote in Colorado County on August 8, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Robert Jenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Jenkins
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 46'
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jenkins in Colorado County
- Benjamin Jenkinsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1854
- Frank Jenkinsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1827
Jenkinses 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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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