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1800 Census, Surry County, North Carolina

The 1800 census for Surry 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 Surry 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. 

p.544  Cox, John 54010-00010

                    m  f

  00-09  1791-1800  5  0
  10-15  1785-1790  4  0
  16-25  1775-1784  0  0
  26-44  1756-1774  1  1    John Cox
  45-??  ????-1755  0  0
I do not recognize this John Cox.
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This page last edited on 23 Jul 2006.