Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Rufus Green, Brazos County, Texas, 1867

Rufus Green registered to vote in Brazos County on June 29, 1867. He reported 25 years in Texas, 6 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Brazos County, Texas
25 years
In Texas
6 years
In the county
about 1842
Reached Texas
19 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1842 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Brazos County

Rufus Green

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Rufus Green
County of registration
Brazos County
Precinct
4
Registered
June 29, 1867
Years in Texas
25 years
Years in Brazos County
6 years
Years in the precinct
6 years
Years in Texas before Brazos County
19 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Brazos County highlighted
Brazos County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

19 years

Rufus Green reported 19 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.

Other freedmen named Green in Brazos County

Greens elsewhere in Texas

All 225 freedmen named Green in Texas

Variations of Green

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 15 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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