Maverick County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Noah Somler, Maverick County, Texas, 1869

Noah Somler registered to vote in Maverick County on November 19, 1869. He reported 23 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Maverick County registered 12 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Maverick County, Texas
23 years
In Texas
about 1846
Reached Texas
22 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1846 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Maverick County

Noah Somler

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Noah Somler
County of registration
Maverick County
Precinct
2
Registered
November 19, 1869
Years in Texas
23 years
Years in Maverick County
9 months
Years in the precinct
9 months
Years in Texas before Maverick County
22 years
Signature, as written
"O P Banks"
Remarks, as written
"colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Maverick County highlighted
Maverick County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

22 years

Noah Somler reported 22 years more in Texas than in Maverick County.

Other freedmen named Somler in Maverick 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 2 of the Maverick County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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