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The 1820 United States census was the fourth census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 7, 1820. The 1820 census included six new states: Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Maine. There has been a district wide loss of 1820 census records for Arkansas Territory, Missouri Territory, [1] and New Jersey.
In the 1820 U.S. Federal Census, Thompson owned 19 slaves, and his household also included two free blacks. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 1816, Robert T. Thompson was nominated to become a first lieutenant to command a horse militia troop, part of the 60th regiment of Virginia militia .
August 7 – The 1820 United States census is conducted, eventually determining a population of 11,176,475. December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1820: James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.
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Every census up to and including 1950 is currently available to the public and can be viewed on microfilm released by the National Archives and Records Administration, the official keeper of archived federal census records. Complete online census records can be accessed for no cost from National Archives facilities and many libraries, [43] and ...
Rev. Ruffner owned 4 slaves in the 1820 federal census, [11] 6 slaves in the 1830 federal census, [12] and 4 slaves in the 1840 federal census. [13] He may have freed his slaves after his 1847 publications discussed below, but is missing from the 1850 census as digitized, though entries include merchant Lewis Ruffner in Louisville, Kentucky ...
In the 1820 federal census (when Preston County's population had grown to 3,422 people), Fairfax was the county's largest slaveowner. His household included seven white males and six while females (including 2 boys and one girl), as well as five free colored men and 24 enslaved males and 17 enslaved females. [25]
The 1820 federal census (which did not distinguish names within families, nor use lined paper) seems to show his household as including three white and fourteen enslaved people. [1] A decade later the number of white people in his household had grown to seven, and he owned eight slaves, five of them boys under 5 years of age. [ 2 ]