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- [S285] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: McKinney, Collin, Texas; Roll: M432_910; Page: 7B; Image: 20.
- [S538] The war in Kansas: A rough trip to the border, among new homes and a strange people, George Douglas Brewerton, (Name: Derby & Jackson; Date: 1856;), p. 137, p. 238.
p. 137: "Even before Barber was killed, a party of some ten or twelve Free State men, armed to the teeth, surrounded Mr. Doak (a brother-in-law of the Major's [George W. Clarke], who resides with him), as he was returning home from LeCompton, and told him that, "Now was the time they were going to have the difficulty with Major Clarke settled; that he, the Major, could not live;" with many similar expressions."
p. 238: The facts connected with this incendiary attempt, as related to us by Mr. Rufus Doak, the bearer of the letters are these: Between 12 and 1 o'clock on the morning of the thirtieth of December, Mr. Doak and Dr. Johnson were awakened by the appearance of smoke and a smell as if of burning tar in the room in which they were sleeping. They immediately arose, and on making examination discovered fire under one of the rooms, adjoining that in which Major Clarke's family were sleeping."
- [S542] Kansas Territorial Census, 1855, Graden, Debra, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;).
- [S543] Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas, (Date: 1856;), Deposition of Rufus P. Doak.
- [S351] Divorce record of Josiah and Elizabeth Doak.
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