Friday, August 12, 2011

1800 Census

As promised, here is a summary of the 1800 Ocracoke Census (according to Ellen Fulcher Cloud's transcription):

Total population: 113 whites, 9 free people of color (these people were not listed), & 16 slaves.

Family names:

  • Gaskill (1 family, 14 members, 4 slaves)

  • Gaskins (2 families, 12 members, 1 slave)

  • Bragg (1 family, 1 member, 0 slaves)

  • Williams (25 members, 3 slaves)

  • Scarborough (1 family, 4 members, 3 slaves)

  • Wahab (1 family, 6 members, 1 slave)

  • Howard (5 families, 14 members, 0 slaves)

  • O'Neal (3 families, 23 members, 4 slaves)

  • Jackson (3 families, 11 members, 0 slaves)

  • Garrish (1 family, 3 members, 0 slaves)


  • Our latest Ocracoke Newsletter is Lou Ann's story of the Night Blooming Cereus Cactus. You can read it here: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news072111.htm.

    2 comments:

    1. Anonymous4:54 PM

      Didn't these early censuses require 1st name, sex, age & occupation-or were they merely headcounts?

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    2. From 1790 - 1840 the censuses recorded the name of the head of each household and simply a head count of the other residents of the house, enumerated by sex, age, and color. By 1850 all of the residents of a household were listed by name, along with house #, age, sex, color and occupation.

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