The 1820 Census of Logan County, Kentucky

U.S. Senator Barack OBAMA,
descendant of Johann Pieter STRAUB, 1733 immigrant to Philadelphia, PA

The 1820 Federal Census of Logan County, Kentucky — Introduction
[So far, only the three Russellville pages are finished and online.]

Like many early censuses, the Logan County 1820 census suffers from the pages having been unbound, flattened, and rebound into larger books at the National Archives, which has put the pages out of order. In particular, "two-page spreads" are no longer the adjacent pages they once were. Fortunately, with Logan County we have a key to the original page order in the form of a tally page where the enumerator lists the pages by number, along with a tally for each column on the page. By matching the tallies along the bottom of each census page to this tally page list and arithmetically finding it's match, it is possible to correctly pair up the disordered pages and place them in their original order, which is nothing like their order on the microfilm or, consequently, their order online at Ancestry.com or Genealogy.com.

The major problem caused by this dis-ordering of the original pagination is that at both Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com all of the Logan County images are grouped as being in "Russellville," but only 5 of the actual 26 images (3 of the 24 census pages) of the Logan County census are of Russellville. Here again, it is the tally that makes it clear that this is the case. Below is a Table showing the Logan County tally, with links to extractions of the individual pages. In addition to this extraction of the Logan County Census pages, I am also compiling an index (as yet, unfinished):

Index to the 1820 Logan County Census.

Aggregate of Population in the County of Logan on the First Monday in August 1820
For a more detailed description of what the columns mean, please see What the Numbers in the Census Mean.

Image #5 of 26 online at both Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com; Microfilm Frame #26

White Males White Females Occupation Male Slaves Female Slaves Male
Free Colored Female
Free Colored

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

Russellville Page 1 68 23 19 84 56 12 46 44 33 28 11 4 30 9 78 69 29 31 10 47 39 23 6 1 1 1 1 1

Page 2 57 28 16 101 54 15 56 42 37 30 14 29 6 90 56 37 31 11 52 51 33 15 2 1 1

Page 3 27 13 12 37 23 8 26 16 16 15 4 20 6 43 23 23 11 2 22 24 28 6

Aggregate 152 64 47 222 133 35 128 102 86 73 29 4 79 21 211 148 89 73 23 121 114 84 27 1 1 3 1 1 2

General Page 1 63 32 6 32 40 26 53 35 46 36 24 324 124 56 58 27 110 49 37 19? 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1

Page 2 93 41 10 43 33 29 64 45 37 29 25 258 103 52 28 12 94 48 32 9

Page 3 75 34 10 38 32 21 73 43 32 33 20 216 68 51 26 6 68 35 28 5 2

Page 4 98 38 9 38 39 23 75 38 36 32 17 184 1 56 38 23 7 52 33 27 9 1

Page 5 87 38 8 39 36 24 72 40 30 32 22 219 8 71 41 31 10 59 33 29 6

Page 6 90 31 5 32 34 17 81 31 37 26 14 180 5 73 35 15 7 54 32 20 11 3 2 2 3 2 1 2

Page 7 83 46 17 43 34 24 59 45 22 27 17 167 3 39 22 11 3 32 23 15 4 3 1 1 2 1 2 2 2

Page 8 73 34 10 30 31 19 67 39 29 33 17 201 11 75 36 22 3 50 33 22 5 1 1 3 1

Page 9 76 34 11 39 34 25 78 45 22 31 20 186 3 71 36 21 5 55 26 18 5

Page 10 82 21 5 35 37 16 74 32 22 29 17 166 15 50 41 14 4 39 28 15 2 1 2 1 3 1 1

Page 11 88 26 5 28 30 23 78 36 35 28 21 121 37 16 6 4 31 17 13 3

Page 12 70 43 3 29 41 15 69 35 15 32 19 157 2 39 23 9 ? 43 26 22 5

Page 13 80 37 12 31 27 22 62 47 23 27 19 175 5 49 27 19 14 47 25 18 8 1

Page 14 85 41 16 49 35 30 83 43 26 27 28 176 7 37 25 9 3 33 32 13 3

Page 15 100 40 8 33 35 21 79 33 30 26 21 159 7 28 22 16 9 21 22 10 5 1

Page 16 71 23 7 37 34 16 62 41 32 36 20 126 7 24 7 3 1 22 12 10 1 1 2

Page 17 82 34 10 29 34 11 81 41 21 34 23 111 2 15 5 2 9 9 13 7 1

Page 18 70 44 11 29 30 18 81 44 22 27 22 133 3 28 13 11 3 21 20 9 8 2 2 1 3 1

Page 19 85 58 14 31 33 23 80 53 17 34 20 142 4 16 11 6 14 7 8 3 1

Page 20 119 83 21 43 45 33 110 94 64 50 36 184 62 27 8 7 2 22 17 11 7 5 4 5 10 10 2 6

Page 21 57 33 13 32 13 20 42 43 15 15 19 105 16 8 3 2 22 12 6 1

Aggregate 1879 875 258 962 840 491 1651 1005 699 717 471 4 3769 21 356 1204 662 413 150 1019 657 454 137 18 18 16 17 21 20 9 16