List of those who were registered as voters, Supervisor of Registration, Parish of Orleans, 15-16 December 1890 (FRUS 1891, Document 613)

A certified abstract of voter-registration records for ten of the Italians charged in the Hennessy case, plus a separate certificate for Salvador Coscenso, sent to Washington by the U.S. Attorney. It gives each man's registration number, precinct and, where stated, naturalization or declaration of intention.

Date

1890-12-15

Kind

case-file

Source

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1891

Retrieved

2026-10-12

Rights

A publication of the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105; the document dates from 1890-91.

The document is signed by Geo. W. Flynn, Supervisor of Registration for the Parish of Orleans, on 15 December 1890, with a further certificate dated 16 December, and was sent to Washington by the U.S. Attorney after the State Department asked about the prisoners’ citizenship (Document 612, Attorney General Miller to Blaine, 20 December 1890, was read for context). For each man it gives a registration number, ward and precinct, an address, a birth year, and, where stated, naturalization or a declaration of intention. It names, among others, Antonio Bagnetto, John and James Caruso, Antonio Marchese, Antonio Scaffidi, Charles Pietzo (Petero), Charles Patorno, Frank Romeo, Joseph Macheca (“Born in Louisiana”) and Charles Matranga: “registered No. 599, Fifth precinct, Third ward, October 27, 1872 … Citizen by virtue of father’s naturalization. Born in Italy in year 1857.”

This is the record that spells the name “Charles Matranga.” Registration dates are printed as given; one entry’s dates look internally inconsistent in the print (Antonio Marchese is shown as registered in 1872 and declaring his intention in 1890), so they are reproduced here with care and not relied on. Street addresses in the list are not repeated on this page.