Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Godfrey Mason, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Godfrey Mason registered to vote in Austin County on July 26, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 9 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Godfrey Mason
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Godfrey Mason
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Austin County
- 9 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsGodfrey Mason reported 5 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Mason in Austin County
- Robert Masonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1859
Masons elsewhere in Texas
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 9 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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