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1830 Census Reports: Decennial Population and Housing Censuses Research Guide
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- US Census Bureau 1830 Documents as PDFs
Questionnaire, instructions, and table headers
* Questionnaire description and Instructions to
Marshals - from Measuring America (Sept. 2002)
* Table headers - from Seventh Census of
the United States, 1850 (I8.5:1)
Fifth Census; or Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United
States, 1830
U.S. Documents C3.14:830/rep. 1990 (reclassed from
I6.5:1)
* GEOGRAPHIES: Nation, states, Territories, Counties, Ward, Town,
Township, Parish, Precinct, Hundred or District
* CONTENTS: Sex and Age of Free White Persons, Slaves, Free
Colored Persons; Numbers of deaf, dumb, blind white persons, colored and
slaves; Number of Aliens (foreigners not naturalized)
* Age ranges reported for Free White Persons by sex: under 5, 5-9, 10-14,
15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, 80-89, 90-99, 100+
* Age ranges reported for Slaves, and Free Colored Persons, both by sex:
under 10, 10-23, 24-35, 36-54, 55-99, 100+
* Deaf and dumb totals for all White Persons, Slaves and Colored, reported
by age ranges: under 14, 14-24, 25+
* Blind White Persons, and Blind Slaves and Colored totals
* White Aliens (Foreigners not naturalized) total
* Prefixed by a "Schedule of the Whole Number of Persons" with county-
level figures from 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820.
Abstract of the Returns of the Fifth Census
Census
Bureau PDF file
U.S. Documents C3.14:830/rep. 1968 (reclassed from
I6.5:2)
* Subtitle: "Showing the Number of Free Persons, the Number of Slaves, the
Federal or Representative Number, and the Aggregate of Each County of Each
State of the United States"