Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ransom Green, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Ransom Green registered to vote in Fayette County on July 12, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 18 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Ransom Green
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ransom Green
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 18 years
- Years in the precinct
- 18 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsRansom Green reported 12 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Green in Fayette County
- Charles Greenreached Texas about 1860
- Dick Greenborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
- George Greenborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1848
- Henderson Greenborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1848
- Robert Greenreached Texas about 1860
Greens elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Green
- Greene 9
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 8 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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