Maverick County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Mathew Somler, Maverick County, Texas, 1869

Mathew Somler registered to vote in Maverick County on November 20, 1869. He reported 29 years in Texas, 2 of them in Maverick County. 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
29 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1840
Reached Texas
27 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1840 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Maverick County

Mathew Somler

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Mathew Somler
County of registration
Maverick County
Precinct
2
Registered
November 20, 1869
Years in Texas
29 years
Years in Maverick County
2 years
Years in the precinct
2 years
Years in Texas before Maverick County
27 years
Naturalized, how
"By Dist Court"
Naturalized, when
"May 5 - 1856"
Naturalized, where
"Guadalupe County"
Signature, as written
"Wm S Lockhart"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Maverick County highlighted
Maverick County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

27 years

Mathew Somler reported 27 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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