1840 Ashtabula Federal Census

Ashtabula County, Ohio

Enumerators of the 1840 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 5, 5 to 10, 10 to 15, 15 to 20, 20 to 30, 30 to 40, 40 to 50, 50 to 60, 60 to 70, 70 to 80, 80 to 90, 90 to 100, over 100
• The number of male and female slaves by age categories
• Free “colored” persons by age categories
• The number of foreigners (not naturalized) in a household
• The number of deaf, dumb, and blind persons within a household
• And town or district, and county of residence.

Additionally, the 1840 census, asked for the first time, the ages of revolutionary war pensioners and the number of individuals engaged in mining, agriculture, commerce, manufacturing and trade, navigation of the ocean, navigation of canals, lakes and rivers, learned professions and engineers; number in school, number in family over age twenty-one who could not read and write, and the number of insane.

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