This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XeB.2ACI/1489.2 Message Board Post: Although the 1810 census of Lancaster District has been treated shabbily, it does not seem to be incomplete. There is a formal summary with breakdowns of the population, dated December 25, 1810 and signed by William Howe. The pages were numbered before filming, but taped together in a partially random order. Although someone may have been trying to cut the number of pages filmed in half, there is no plausible reason for the final arrangement. Page 371 is the front cover, and through it can be seen what was written on Page 372. In fact, nearly every page has material written with ink so dark that it is possible to determine which pages were opposite one another. Page 373 and 374 are back to back, as are 375/376, 377/378, and so on. On Page 372 the household enumeration starts with Jno Simpson, William Howe (who lived near Lancaster Ville on Gills Creek and who took the census), Jos Draffin, down the page until the 27th line, Jno Crawford. Page 373 runs from Jno Dunlap to Mary Cousar. The enumeration concludes with Page 402 -- Robt Harper through George Foster -- ending with a totals row for the whole census. Page 403 has a line for "Total Amount as above Exhibited in their columns is 6318". It is dated 26 Feb 1811 and signed by Wm Howe, and it states that "on the other side are an account of the Manufactorys --". Indeed, the Census of Manufactures data begins on Page 404 with a count of looms, stills, and tanyards and some statistics about productivity. Page 407 concludes the economic data ("No of Hatter Shops") which Wm Howe signed. A page labeled 408 is blank and through it can be seen the lines drawn for Page 407. One example of observing the proper order is that it brings Henry Hudson and Henry Hudson Junr together again as opposed to being pages and pages apart. Nonetheless, having spent a lot of time with this census over many years, this writer fails to see much pattern to the original arrangement of names generally.