Jerry Bryan's Web Pages

1800 Census, Ashe County, North Carolina

The 1800 census for Ashe County, North Carolina was enumerated in a fashion which seems very unusual.  Normally, people are enumerated in house number order in a census so that you can more or less determine who was living close to whom.  The first census in which actual house numbers appeared was 1850, but the enumerations in previous census years were still listed in house number order.

However, the 1800 census for Ashe County, North Carolina was enumerated in almost an alphabetic order.  All the A's are listed, then all the B's, etc., except that within the A's the names are not alphabetized, etc.

I have not checked every county in every state for the 1800 census.  But for the ones I have checked, the ones from North Carolina seem to have all been enumerated in this rather peculiar order, and the ones from other states seem to have been enumerated in house number order as usual.  This issue bears further investigation.

Ashe County was created from Wilkes County between the 1790 and 1800 censues.  Hence, I am looking in Ashe County to see if any of members of my Cox family from Wilkes County ended up in Ashe County after the county was split. 

p.74, Ashe County, North Carolina, 1800
Cox, Joshua 20010-10100

  00-09  1791-1800  2  1
  10-15  1785-1790  0  0
  16-25  1775-1784  0  1
  26-44  1756-1774  1  0    Joshua Cox
  45-??  ????-1755  0  0

I do not recognize this Joshua Cox. 

p.75, Ashe County, North Carolina, 1800
Cox, John 10001-00011 (13 slaves)

  00-09  1791-1800  1  0
  10-15  1785-1790  0  0
  16-25  1775-1784  0  0
  26-44  1756-1774  0  1
  45-??  ????-1755  1  1    John Cox

I do not recognize this John Cox. 

p.75, Ashe County, North Carolina, 1800
Cox, John 00010-11010

  00-09  1791-1800  0  1
  10-15  1785-1790  0  1
  16-25  1775-1784  0  0
  26-44  1756-1774  1  1
  45-??  ????-1755  0  0    John Cox

I do not recognize this John Cox. 

p.76, Ashe County, North Carolina, 1800
Cox, Abel 10001-20010

  00-09  1791-1800  1  2
  10-15  1785-1790  0  0
  16-25  1775-1784  0  0
  26-44  1756-1774  0  1
  45-??  ????-1755  1  0    Abel Cox

I do not recognize this Abel Cox.

Return to Jerry's Home Page

This page last edited on 23 Jul 2006.