Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rain Adams, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Rain Adams registered to vote in Dallas County on August 29, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 2 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
Rain Adams
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rain Adams
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Dallas County
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsRain Adams reported 5 years more in Texas than in Dallas County.
Other freedmen named Adams in Dallas County
- Johnson Adamsborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1862
Adamses 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 23 of the Dallas County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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