Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Clem Dorsey, Galveston County, Texas, 1867
Clem Dorsey registered to vote in Galveston County on June 8, 1867. He reported 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.
- 25 years
- In Texas
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
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In Galveston County
Clem Dorsey
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Clem Dorsey
- County of registration
- Galveston County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- June 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Dorsey in Galveston County
- Charles Dorseyreached Texas about 1866
Dorseys 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 10 of the Galveston County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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