Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ransom Green, Wood County, Texas, 1869
Ransom Green registered to vote in Wood County on November 20, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 21 of them in Wood County. The registrar wrote "Colored voter" beside his name. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
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In Wood County
Ransom Green
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ransom Green
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Wood County
- 21 years
- Years in the precinct
- 21 years
- Signature, as written
- "Ransom Greer"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored voter"
Other freedmen named Green in Wood County
- Gibson Greenborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1863
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 25 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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