Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ransom Green, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Ransom Green registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 10, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 3 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Ransom Green
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ransom Green
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 9
- Registered
- August 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 1 year
- Signature, as written
- "Ransom x Green"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearRansom Green reported 1 year more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Green in Hopkins County
- Grandison Greenborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1861
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 20 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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