In a message dated 3/29/2004 10:35:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, blaineb@slu.edu writes: According to the 1810 Census of Washington County, we find two Barton's. The first appears to be the one under discussion: Barton Mattingly, age 16-25; 3 sons, under 10; and a wife 16-25. It seems that the Missouri records would indicate 3 daughters by 1816. And, it would not seem proper to assume all 3 sons died and he had 3 more daus by 1816. Does anyone have the 1820 Missouri Census records???? The second Barton in Washington County in 1810 seems to show dates different than what I have for him. Barton Mattingly, 26 to 45; 3 daus 10-15, and wife 26-45. > This Barton Mattingly married-(1) MARY CAMBRON (presumably in 1805 or > earlier) > I guess Census records have been wrong before, but usually not that far off. Charley > and by her had three daughters: Ann (b. 1805), Agnes (1807-46) and Mary > (b 1816). > > Mary, the mother, died sometime after her daughter Mary's birth in > 1816.

I had really not considered the 1810 census in my letter of 29 April 2004. However The Barton Mattingly who married successively Mary and Elizabeth Cambron died 30 July 1833 at the age of 57. That means he was born about 1776. That means he would be about 34 at the time of the 1810 census, which would make him the second of the two Bartons that Charley finds in the 1810 census, not the first. That records speaks of ======Barton Mattingly, 26 to 45; 3 daus 10-15, and wife 26-45. The wife of the 1810 census wife was Mary Cambron to whom Barton was married from 1804 to 1816 (or later). Barton and Mary had three girls according to the 12 pages of notes I sent several of you. These girls were born 1805, 1807 and 1816. There must have been a fourth daughter however who died in infancy, as the third daughter on the notes was not yet born in 1810. The ages of the daughters, all listed as 10-15, is a concern, but not a very big one to my mind, as the census records are some of the worst places to find ages. I had one ancestress who was the same age on three successive censuses. Many of these families could not read nor write and had no sure way of keeping track how old anyone was. ________________________________________________________ The first of the two Bartons in the 1810 censs was too young to be the Barton of Perry County, Missouri, as he was not yet 26 in 1810. ======Barton Mattingly, age 16-25; 3 sons, under 10; and a wife 16-25. Charley thinks the other Barton was Leonard Barton Mattingly, born in 1784 -- thus making him 25 or 26 -- in 1810. I hope that all of you will have a Blessed Holy Week and a Happy Easter, events which were very dear to the heart of all these people we've been talking about. Peace and All Good! fr. Blaine