Jefferson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Dock Dickson, Jefferson County, Texas, 1867

Dock Dickson registered to vote in Jefferson County on August 21, 1867. He reported 25 years in Texas, 25 of them in Jefferson County. Jefferson County registered 117 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Jefferson County, Texas
25 years
In Texas
25 years
In the county
about 1842
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1842 to 1870

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In Jefferson County

Dock Dickson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Dock Dickson
County of registration
Jefferson County
Precinct
4
Registered
August 21, 1867
Years in Texas
25 years
Years in Jefferson County
25 years
Years in the precinct
25 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Jefferson County highlighted
Jefferson County on the 1870 county map

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. Jefferson County's entries fill 8 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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