Kaufman County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dock Gray, Kaufman County, Texas, 1867
Dock Gray registered to vote in Kaufman County on August 31, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Kaufman County registered 189 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Dock Gray
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dock Gray
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Kaufman County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Kaufman County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Kaufman County
- 5 years
- Signature, as written
- "Dock Gray"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsDock Gray reported 5 years more in Texas than in Kaufman County.
Other freedmen named Gray in Kaufman County
- Moses Grayborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1857
- Nelson Grayborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1863
- Newman Grayborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
Grays 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 17 of the Kaufman County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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