Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Andrew Drake, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Andrew Drake registered to vote in Dallas County on August 22, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Dallas County
Andrew Drake
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Andrew Drake
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Drakes 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 18 of the Dallas County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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