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From: john newman <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] RE: 1875 and 1895 censuses
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:37:41 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <003a01c1da88$dd1605e0$27c95044@jamison1.pa.home.com>


The "agriculture" and livestock sections are immediately behind the normal town census record - that is behind Delaware Twp. was the Del. agriculture and livestock sections. Then the next town began.
As for whether it is separately indexed, I am not sure. I found it completely by accident. My ancestor is Edward G. Phillips. He was listed in the index under "Edward G. Phillips" and "E.G. Phillips." I wondered who this E.G. Phillips was figuring I might have mistaken the two in the past without knowing it. So I looked both up and found Edward G. Phillips in the regular index and then E.G. Phillips in then in livestock section. They were the same person! (phew) I kept looking. I found some other ancestors and never went back to the index. Eventually I wandered into the agriculture section and found the same ancestors there too (but not E.G. Phillips - I guess he wasn't much of a farmer).
If your ancestor isn't indexed more than once, and he is a farmer or raised a few pigs, I would suggest just finding these sections and going line by line anyway.
There was also a section for either "industry" or "manufacturing." (I forgot how it was labeled.) In Delaware it was only one page long.
I felt very happy after finding these sections as I got a much better picutre of who that person was, how successful, what their life must have been like, how big their farm was, etc.
Scott Tilden <> wrote: Yes, as I noted, it is in the archives. I used it last week. Didn't know about the "separate sections" -- is that indexed separately? How does one know if there IS information in a separate section pertaining to an individual? --Scott Tilden -----Original Message-----
From: john newman [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:48 PM
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Subject: 1875 and 1895 censuses


As to the 1875 census, it is on film at the archives. I was there a few weeks ago, used the index and the films there. the 1875 census has a lot of information for farmers. In two separate sections distinct from the normal census questions of household member, age, where parents born, it lists (1) the crops and how much they yield get (or got) - hay, oats, apples, peaches, corn, potatoes, etc. and lists the worth of the crop and (2) - a separate section - it lists animals, qunatity and worth - pigs, "milch" cows, sheep poultru, oxen, horse, cattle, and maybe mules. Very interesting stuff.
Does any other state census have this sort of detailed farm information?
Scott Tilden <> wrote: >>> ...someone with easy access to the 1895 NJ State Census

Co-Hunterdon researchers -- there was also an 1875 NJ State census...what
differentiates that one for us is that it is very well indexed for Hunterdon
County only -- done by WPA folks in the 30s by, I believe, the Clinton
Historical Society. There is a notebook photocopy of the 1,100+ page index
on the shelf at the NJ State Archives, West State Street in Trenton, as well
as the two reels of microfilm. The films alone are at the county library
facility in Flemington.

--Scott Tilden



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