1840's Census Records

The 1840 U.S. Federal Census:

• Census Day was 1 June 1840.
• The sixth census included the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia; the District of Columbia; and the territories of Florida, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
• The census collected the following information:
  • Name of the county, city, ward, town, township, parish, precint, hundred, or district.
  • Names of heads of family
  • Number of free white males
    - under 5 years
    - 5 to 10 years
    - 10 to 15 years
    - 15 to 20 years
    - 20 to 30 years
    - 40 to 50 years
    - 50 to 60 years
    - 60 to 70 years
    - 70 to 80 years
    - 80 to 90 years
    - 90 to 100 years
    - 100 years and upward
  • Number of free white females
    - under 5 years
    - 5 to 10 years
    - 10 to 15 years
    - 15 to 20 years
    - 20 to 30 years
    - 40 to 50 years
    - 50 to 60 years
    - 60 to 70 years
    - 70 to 80 years
    - 80 to 90 years
    - 90 to 100 years
    - 100 years and upward
  • Number of free colored males
    - under 10 years
    - 10 to 24 years
    - 24 to 36 years
    - 36 to 55 years
    - 55 to 100 years
    - 100 years and upward
  • Number of free colored females
    - under 10 years
    - 10 to 24 years
    - 24 to 36 years
    - 36 to 55 years
    - 55 to 100 years
    - 100 years and upward
  • Number of male slaves
    - under 10 years
    - 10 to 24 years
    - 24 to 36 years
    - 36 to 55 years
    - 55 to 100 years
    - 100 years and upward
  • Number of female slaves
    - under 10 years
    - 10 to 24 years
    - 24 to 36 years
    - 36 to 55 years
    - 55 to 100 years
    - 100 years and upward
  • Total
  • Number of persons in each family employed in Mining
  • Number of persons in each family employed in Agriculture
  • Number of persons in each family employed in Commerce
  • Number of persons in each family employed in Manufacture and trade
  • Number of persons in each family employed in Navigation of the ocean
  • Number of persons in each family employed in Navigation of canals, lakes, rivers
  • Number of persons in each family employed in Learned professional engineers
  • Names of pensioners for Revolutionary ot military services
  • Ages
  • Number of white persons who were deaf and dumb aged
    - under 14 years
    - 14 and under 25 years
    - 25 years and upward
  • Number of white persons who were blind
  • Number of white persons insane and idiots at public charge
  • Number of white persons insane and idiots at private charge
  • Number of colored persons who were deaf and dumb
  • Number of colored persons who were blind
  • Number of colored persons insane and idiots at public charge
  • Number of colored persons insane and idiots at private charge
  • Universities or college
  • Number of students
  • Academies & grammar schools
  • Number of scholars
  • Primary and common schools
  • Number of scholars at public charge
  • Number of white persons over 20 years of age in each family who cannot read and write
• There are no substantial losses.

Other 1840's Census Records:

Other census records for the 1840 decade will be added as they are discovered.