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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.
James Crawford Freeman (April 1, 1820 – September 3, 1885) was a Georgia planter and slaveowner who after serving in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War received a pardon and became a banker, jeweler and politician who served one term in the U.S. Representative as a Republican.
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.
New York did not conduct a census in 1885 because its Governor David B. Hill refused to support the proposed census due to its extravagance and cost. [16] [17] Governor Hill objected to the idea of spending so much state money on a state census that was as extravagant as the 1880 U.S. Census. [16] [17]
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, John R. Archer (possibly his father, although he had died in 1812) owned 51 enslaved people, and William S. Archer owned 32 slaves. [3] In the 1830 federal census, William S. Archer owned 25 enslaved people, [ 4 ] which number grew to 50 enslaved people by the 1840 federal census, [ 5 ] and 68 enslaved people in the ...
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]
In the 1830 federal census, Thomas Marshall owned 64 slaves in addition to the eight white people in his household. [ 6 ] In 1827 Fauquier county voters elected Thomas Marshall as one of their two delegates in the Virginia General Assembly (alongside Alexander D. Kelly) and he began his state legislative service on December 3, 1827.