Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Freeman Perkins, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Freeman Perkins registered to vote in Colorado County on August 14, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas, 25 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 25 years
- In the county
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Freeman Perkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Freeman Perkins
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 25 years
- Years in the precinct
- 25 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Perkins in Colorado County
- David Perkinsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1842
- John Perkinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1860
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. It sits on page 38 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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