Charlene wrote: >Does anyone know about where these places would be on a map might be? >I'm trying to place where Owen Township would have been in 1840 and >where this census may have been taken: 1850 Saline County Census, >District of Saline. Possibly they both would have been about the same >area. The boundaries of Owen Township were first defined by the county court 29 April 1836--see Saline County Court Record Book A, p. 5 (six townships were designated at that time). I believe there are other later entries sprinkled though the county court records which show the changing townships, but these entries aren't indexed. I don't remember any map of Saline County or the area that shows the boundaries in 1840 or 1850. There is an 1850 map showing Saline County in my book _1850 Saline County, Arkansas Census_, but it doesn't shed light on the boundaries of the townships; in this book there's also a map showing the townships but it's for 1936. Unfortunately, the 1850 enumerator didn't record the census by township--instead he just marked them all "District of Saline," by which he meant Saline County. Of course, Saline County looked a lot different at the time you're interested in--before Grant County was formed out of it's southern part. Although Owen Township's boundaries changed over time, it remained centered in the same place, around township 1 South, Range 14 West, but growing smaller over time as more townships were formed and as the boundary with Pulaski County changed over time (Owen Township borders Pulaski County on it's north and east sides). The 1840 Saline County census enumerated families by township; by comparing the 1840 census entry for various families with their original land entries (found in other sources), it's possible to make an educated guess about some of the boundaries since the legal descriptions follow the same township and range descriptions found on a modern map. I hope this helps some. Which family(s) are you researching in this area? Carolyn