Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Frank Jenkins, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Frank Jenkins registered to vote in Colorado County on July 16, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 40 years in Texas, 16 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
- 40 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1827 to 1870
Frank Jenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Frank Jenkins
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 40 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 16 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 24 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsFrank Jenkins reported 24 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Jenkins in Colorado County
- Benjamin Jenkinsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1854
- Robert Jenkinsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1851
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. It sits on page 9 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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