According to "The Census Book" by William Dollarhide the 1810 census records as a whole were not burned. Washington was burned by the British in 1814, but the only records that would have been there at the time were the 1810 District of Columbia census schedules. The original census schedules from 1790 until 1820 had been stored in district courts throughout the country until a law was passed in 1830 requiring them to be sent to Washington. At that time, many of the records were not returned or had already been lost by the various states. The first census records available in Tennessee according to another book "Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920" was the 1810 schedules for Rutherford County and part of Grainger County. Then in 1820, only records from middle Tennessee counties exist, which had been stored in Nashville. Eastern Tennessee records that were stored in Knoxville were lost and not returned in 1830 when the law was passed. Lisa