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The 1840 United States census was the sixth census of the United States. Conducted by U.S. marshals on June 1, 1840, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 17,069,453 – an increase of 32.7 percent over the 12,866,020 persons enumerated during the 1830 census. The total population included 2,487,355 slaves.
The 1840 census records that Clubb enslaved six people: one boy and one girl under ten, two teenage girls or young women, one adult woman, and one adult man. [3] It is possible that the girl was Winifred. John W. Bryant and his wife Eliza Ford owned a farm near Smithfield, KY. In 1850, they were recorded as owning a fifteen-year-old girl. [4]
For the 1990 Census and earlier, the primary resource is the 2005 Working Paper number POP-WP076. [1] Post-1990 data, as well as data for territories, is drawn from the respective year's Census. Some locales may have pre-existed their first appearance in the U.S. Census, but such values are not included here, unless otherwise noted.
Total population counts for the Censuses of 1790 through 1860 include both free and enslaved persons. Native Americans were not identified in the Census of 1790 through 1840 and only sporadically from 1850 until 1890, if they lived outside of Indian Territory or off reservations.
The regions marked * were part of Great Britain. The ancestry of the 3.9 million population in 1790 has been estimated from various sources by sampling last names in the 1790 census and assigning them a country of origin. The Irish in the 1790 census were mostly Scots Irish. The French were mostly Huguenots. The total U.S. Catholic population ...
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The 1840 US Census records Dod owning one enslaved female aged ten to twenty-four, making him one of the latest slaveholders in both Princeton and the entire state of New Jersey, which had adopted a system of gradual emancipation in 1804. [99] Henry Dodge (1782–1867), 1st and 4th Governor of the Wisconsin Territory.
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