Mason County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Reif Menard, Mason County, Texas, 1867

Reif Menard registered to vote in Mason County on September 17, 1867. He reported 10 years in Texas, 3 of them in Mason County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Mason County registered 1 freedman in 1867, under 1% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Mason County, Texas
10 years
In Texas
3 years
In the county
about 1857
Reached Texas
7 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1857 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Mason County

Reif Menard

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Reif Menard
County of registration
Mason County
Registered
September 17, 1867
Years in Texas
10 years
Years in Mason County
3 years
Years in Texas before Mason County
7 years
Naturalized, how
"By Note of Father"
Naturalized, when
"1860"
Naturalized, where
"Gillespie Co. Tex"
Signature, as written
"Alex his x mark Leonard"
Remarks, as written
"colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Mason County highlighted
Mason County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

7 years

Reif Menard reported 7 years more in Texas than in Mason County.

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 3 of the Mason County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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