Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dock Paine, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Dock Paine registered to vote in Colorado County on July 19, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 2 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
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Dock Paine
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dock Paine
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearDock Paine reported 1 year more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Paine in Colorado County
- Jacob Paineborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
Paines 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 16 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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