The 1820 census might still be checked for the surname to see if the family was somewhere in the settled areas of the state. Another resource might be Vincennes land entries, which tended to be early. The State Archives is the resource for those. Sharon Mills ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Zach" <karen.zach@sbcglobal.net> To: inmontgo@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:46:41 AM Subject: Re: [InMontgo] 1820 census question Susan - there were really no whites here - just a few, small Miami Indian bands - no land was owned by whites until December 1822 - not sure that answers your question but basically the reason there was no census was because no whites were here to count On 2/21/2014 10:07 PM, Susan Caughlan wrote: > Can someone please enlighten me as to how to search for a person in > the 1820 census in Montgomery County when that county did not exist > at that time? I see that it would have been in the Wabash New > Purchase area as of 1820, but I cannot find that district in the list > of counties in the 1820 census on archive.org. > > Thank you in advance for your assistance. > > Susan in southeastern PA > > Working on Beadle/Beedle moving west from Berks Co, PA (ca 1777) to > Wingate, Montgomery Co., IN (as of 1826) > > http://indianagenweb.com/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > http://indianagenweb.com/inmontgomery/ List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message