Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Burrell Ransom, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Burrell Ransom registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 20, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Fort Bend County
Burrell Ransom
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Burrell Ransom
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
Ransoms 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 37 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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