I found a Amos Hill with a Hannah in the 1850 Lyme census - too young for your Amos. Any other Town they might be in ? Alice -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Hawks Giezentaner <bgiez@juno.com> To: NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com <NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 10:22 PM Subject: Re: Hill, Wheeler, Where can I look now? >New York State did a census in 1855 that listed all the residents in the >household, in fact there is also an agricultural census, so if your >ancestor was a farmer, you could find out the crops and animals he >raised. The NYS census for that year gathered the following info: of what >material the house was built, value, name of every person in the >household and relationship to head, age, sex. color, in what county of >this state, or what other state or foreign country was each resident >born, if married or widowed, years resident in this city or town, >profession, trade or occupation, whether native or naturalized or alien, >persons of color not taxed, owner of land, whether deaf, dumb, blind, >insane or idiotic. The agricultural census asked 108 questions. I think >that the films of the New York State Census is available at the LDS >Family History Centers, but I have not ordered those from there. I looked >at the actual census books at the county building in Buffalo, NY for Erie >County, and at the historians office for Cattaraugus County, NY. I >believe I did look for the census in the FHC catalog and it was difficult >to find, but I did eventually find it. Now if I can just remember how.... > >Barbara Hawks Giezentaner bgiez@juno.com >Saline MI > >Searching for Nathaniel and his son, Rev. Friend FREEMAN in Jefferson >Co., and Friend's wife, Catherine STEWART/STUART > >On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:02:26 +0200 "Jeff & Gina" <jeffgina@bunt.com> >writes: >> I am having problems with my great grandfather William Henry Hill >> who was born in 1840 in Jefferson Co. His parents were Amos Hill >> & Ursula Wheeler. Their family lived in Jefferson Co. since >> Revolutionary times until 1858. I thought I found a lead with >> the 1830 & 1840 census, but didn't realize they only list the >> head of household and tally up the males and females in the >> house, so it was too vague to know if this was the correct Amos. >> >> Does anyone have any advice where I can look for more help? I am >> stationed in Germany and exhausted all the free lookup volunteers >> who couldn't turn up much more than the census indexes. >> >> I'm hoping I'm on the right track with the Amos in Lyme, but like >> I said, not sure, if anyone can offer any advice, let me know! >> Jeffrey W. Scott >> jeffgina@bunt.com >> http://www.bunt.com/~jeffgina/ >> >> >> ============================== >> Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >> RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >> http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >> > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >