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The 1870 United States census was the ninth United States census. It was conducted by the Census Office from June 1, 1870, to August 23, 1871. The 1870 census was the first census to provide detailed information on the African American population, only five years after the culmination of the Civil War when slaves were granted freedom.
The 1870 federal census was the first to record many former slaves by name. This makes finding family members before then very difficult. [ 6 ] Because scant documentation of enslaved African Americans and their families exists, people must usually use slaveholders' or enslavers' records to find their ancestors before emancipation .
Indeed, the 1892 New York state census contained only seven questions — name, sex, age, color (race), country of birth, citizenship status, and occupation. [18] Meanwhile, the censuses from 1905 to 1925 asked for relationships of people to each other but also only asked for a country of birth. [ 15 ]
1870 federal census of Ross County, Ohio; the enumerator broke protocol to note of Madison Hemings, "This man is the son of Thomas Jefferson." Madison's brother and fellow slave of Thomas Jefferson Eston Hemings moved to Wisconsin and changed his name to Jefferson; Eston's son John Wayles Jefferson (pictured) was a U.S. Army officer during the ...
Interactive semi-log plot of historical population of the 50 states of USA and the District of Columbia from 1900 to 2015 according to Federal Reserve Economic Data categorised by US census region. In theSVGfile , hover over a graph, its state abbreviation, its map or its region label to highlight it (and in SMIL-enabled browsers, click to ...
Little is known about Judy Woodford Reed, or Reid. [2] She first appears in the 1870 Federal Census as a 44 year old seamstress in Fredericksville Parish near Charlottesville, Virginia, in Albemarle County, along with her husband Allen, a gardener, and their five children [3] Ten years later, Allen and Judy Reed were still in Virginia, this time with a grandson. [4]
In the 1830 Albemarle County census, Madison, Eston and Sally Hemings were all classified as free whites, [28] sometimes they were classified as mixed race. [27] Sally Hemings died in Charlotte in 1835. [5] During their time in Charlottesville, Hemings had built a wood-and-brick house on Main Street. [16]
According to federal census records through 1910 (1870, [11] 1880, [12] 1900, [13] 1910 [14]), Hughes' enumerated age indicates he was born between 1859 and 1863. By the 1920 census and thereafter, Hughes was enumerated to have been born circa 1849, contradicting at least 40 years' worth of prior documentary evidence in favor of the 1859–1863 ...