Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Greenville Brown, Galveston County, Texas, 1867

Greenville Brown registered to vote in Galveston County on June 14, 1867. He reported 37 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Galveston County, Texas
37 years
In Texas
about 1830
Reached Texas
36 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1830 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Galveston County

Greenville Brown

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Greenville Brown
County of registration
Galveston County
Precinct
3
Registered
June 14, 1867
Years in Texas
37 years
Years in Galveston County
4 months
Years in the precinct
4 months
Years in Texas before Galveston County
36 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Galveston County highlighted
Galveston County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

36 years

Greenville Brown reported 36 years more in Texas than in Galveston County.

Other freedmen named Brown in Galveston County

Browns elsewhere in Texas

All 383 freedmen named Brown 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 19 of the Galveston County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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