Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Andrew Pickins, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Andrew Pickins registered to vote in Colorado County on November 26, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 1 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Andrew Pickins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Andrew Pickins
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsAndrew Pickins reported 14 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Pickinses 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 64 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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