DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dock Drake, DeWitt County, Texas, 1869
Dock Drake registered to vote in DeWitt County on November 22, 1869. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 19 of them in DeWitt County. DeWitt County registered 364 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 19 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In DeWitt County
Dock Drake
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dock Drake
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- DeWitt County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in DeWitt County
- 19 years
- Years in the precinct
- 19 years
Other freedmen named Drake in DeWitt County
- Jim Drakereached Texas about 1852
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 24 of the DeWitt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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