Fannin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Perkins, Fannin County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Perkins registered to vote in Fannin County on July 15, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Fannin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fannin County registered 437 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Fannin County
Thomas Perkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Perkins
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Fannin County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Fannin County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Perkins in Fannin County
- Reiley Perkinsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1865
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 4 of the Fannin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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