Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Census
1800 U.S. CENSUS
© 1998 Thomas L. Yoset
Crawford County was formed 12 March 1800 and in the 1800 federal census,
completed a year later, 2,361 inhabitants were counted in 487 households. Those
census returns are transcribed below from the microfilmed copies.1
The census provides the name of only the head of household.
Free white persons within each household were enumerated by sex and age, as follows: males under
age ten, ten to fifteen, sixteen to twenty-five, twenty-six to forty-four, and forty-five or more years of age;
females under age ten, ten to fifteen, sixteen to twenty-five, twenty-six to forty-four, and forty-five or over.
Two additional columns show the number of other free persons (excluding untaxed Indians), and slaves.
PAGE
|
| males
| females
| others /
slaves
| Total |
| < 10
| 10 - 15
| 16 - 25
| 26 - 44
| > 44
| < 10
| 10 - 15
| 16 - 26
| 26 - 44
| > 44
|
| Meadville
| 28
| 5
| 21
| 31
| 9
| 29
| 8
| 21
| 8
| 3
| 1
| 0
| 164 |
| Mead Township
| 277
| 94
| 173
| 195
| 73
| 235
| 68
| 117
| 122
| 47
| 4
| 6
| 1411 |
| Coniott Township
| 124
| 54
| 120
| 102
| 34
| 134
| 49
| 83
| 48
| 36
| 1
| 1
| 786 |
| Total
| 429*
| 153*
| 314*
| 328*
| 116
| 398*
| 125*
| 221*
| 178
| 86*
| 6*
| 7*
| 2361* |
* indicates discrepancy from the official tally.
1
Population Schedules of the Second Census of the United States, 1800
(National Archives, 1957), publication no. M32, roll 38.
