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US Census Records
Online images from the 1810 US Census
include the following states:
Connecticut, Deleware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Maryland, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia
The 1810 census
was begun on 6 August 1810. The count was due within nine months, but
the due date was extended by law to ten months.
Questions Asked in the 1810
Census
Name of family head; 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.
Research Tips for the 1810
Census
The 1810 census records are useful in identifying the locality to be
searched for other types of records for a named individual. The 1810
census will, in most cases, help distinguish the target family from others
of the same name; help to determine family size; locate possible relatives
with the same name; identify immediate neighbors who may be related;
identify slaveholders; and spot spelling variations of surnames. Free men
“of color” are named as heads of household. Slaves appear in age groupings
by name of owner. By combining those age groupings with probate
inventories and tax list data, it is sometimes possible to determine names
of other family members and the birth order of those individuals.
Manufacturing schedules are scattered among the 1810 population schedules.
