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- 142 rolls.
Enumerators of the 1820 census were asked to include the following categories in the census: name of head of household, number of free white males and females in age categories: 0 to 10, 10 to 16, 16 to 26, 26 to 45, 45 and older; number of other free persons except Indians not taxed; number of slaves; and town or district and county of residence. Additionally, the 1820 census for the first time asked the number of free white males 16 to 18; number of persons to be naturalized; number engaged in agriculture, commercial, or manufacture; number of "colored" persons (sometimes in age categories); and number of other persons except Indians. The categories allowed Congress to determine persons residing in the United States for collection of taxes and the appropriation of seats in the House of Representatives. Most entries are arranged in the order of visitation, but some have been rearranged to appear in alphabetical order by initial letter of the surname. Manufacturing schedules are scattered among the 1820 population schedules.
The Upper Maine towns of Madawaska, New Limerick and Houlton covered many square miles in 1820. They were part of an territorial border area in dispute between the U.S. and England. Their census records were recently found. Not only are U.S. the towns covered, but even several communities now in Canada were enumerated. In some cases, these may be the only census records of those Canadian towns at any time before 1851. Not many of us would think to look for residents of Canadian towns in “missing” U.S. census records. Much more information is available on Chip Gagnon’s website, including his transcriptions. You can find his excellent site at:
http://www.upperstjohn.com/
and especially (in English and in French) at:
http://www.upperstjohn.com/1820.
[ref. https://blog.eogn.com/2020/09/25/the-lost-1820-u-s-census-records-have-been-found/]
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