Kendall County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Giles Mathews, Kendall County, Texas, 1867

Giles Mathews registered to vote in Kendall County on August 13, 1867. He reported 8 years in Texas, 8 of them in Kendall County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Kendall County registered 31 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.

Registered in Kendall County, Texas

8 years
In Texas: 8 years
In the county: about 1859
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1859 to 1870

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In Kendall County

Giles Mathews

Texas

Name: Giles Mathews
County of registration: Kendall County
Registered: August 13, 1867
Years in Texas: 8 years
Years in Kendall County: 8 years
Naturalized, how: "father's"
Naturalized, when: "Nov 4 1860"
Naturalized, where: "Kerr"
Signature, as written: "William H. Crane"
Remarks, as written: "colored"

Kendall County on the 1870 county map

Mathewses elsewhere in Texas

All 33 freedmen named Mathews in Texas

Variations of Mathews

Matthews 20

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 4 of the Kendall County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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