Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jervis Green, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Jervis Green registered to vote in Bexar County on July 25, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 11 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 11 years
- In Texas
- about 1856
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1856 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Jervis Green
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jervis Green
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Green in Bexar County
- Frank Greenborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1864
- Washington Greenborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1847
- Willis Greenborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1865
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 29 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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