Thanks, Birde , for the Sauk Census of 1842. Lois ----- Original Message ----- From: Birde <Birde@bigfoot.com> To: <WISAUK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 12:22 PM Subject: [WISAUK] 1st and last census of Sauk Co. > List Members, > Thought someone might be able to use some of this information. > > "An act to provide for the taking of the census of the inhabitants of the > Territory of WESKONSAN, approved February 18, 1842" > > The figures opposite the name indicate the number of persons belonging to > each family (it says they often included others) > > SAUK PRAIRIE- > Prescott Brigham, 4 > E.P. Brigham, 4 > Josiah E. Abbott, 7 > J. Waggoner, 5 > Andrew Garrison, 2 > Nathan Kellogg, 6 > William G. Simons, 5 > H.F. Crossman, 4 > John La Messure, 15 > W. Langdon, 3 > Calvin Frink, 11 > John Gallard, 3 > A. Morgan, 4 > George Dunlap, 3 > Jonathan Hatch, 9 > Albert Skinner, 7 > J. Hayden, 8 > Adolph Rendtorff, 6 > James S. Alban, 8 > Total=116 > > BARABOO- > M. Crain, 2 > Robert V. Allen, 2 > Levi Moore, 5 > Moses Nulph, 4 > John Meads, 1 > M. Gillson, 6 > Orrin Hudson, 1 > Peter Manaar, 3 > John Rainey, 2 > John De La Rond, 1 > Thomas Kelsey, 1 > C. Randall, 7 > Henry Lewis, 6 > Milo Blood, 5 > Don Carlos Barry, 6 > James Christie, 6 > D. Gilson, 7 > Edward Kingsley, 5 > Mrs. V.B. Hill, 6 > Abraham Wood, 3 > Wallace Brown, 11 > John Draper, 5 > Lewis Brunson, 5 > William H. Canfield, 3 > Simeon Griffith, 5 > Richard Clark, 1 > Thomas Clark, 3 > Solomon Shaffer, 3 > Edward Johnson, 5 > Daniel Brewster, 3 > Eben Peck, 5 > William Stephens, 1 > S. Knox or Traux, 5 > Total=134 > > HELENA- > P.M. Nichols, 4 > Charles, Halasz, 13 > Robert Bryant, 10 > Birosch, 8 > Alvin Crane, 8 > H.B. Staines, 9 > E. Brown, 1 > Cyrus Leland, 10 > John Russell, 2 > Henry Teal, 6 > M. Blodget, 1 > John Hoover,Jr., 3 > John Hoover, Sr., 4 > Zenas Herrington, 8 > Albert Jameson, 5 > Albert Myers, 4 > John Kellogg, 4 > Andrew Hodgett, 1 > William Johnson, 9 > Samuel Mather, 3 > D.R. Baxter, 4 > George Cargill, 5 > Samuel Woodruff, 9 > William Tanner, 4 > John Wilson, 7 > Frank Pravoncil, 5 > Total=146 > > **This census was by no means a correct one. It is the only one in > existence, however, taken at that early date, It is known to be incomplete > for the reason that the names of several of the first settlers in the county > who were heads of families were omitted. > > Birde > mailto:Birde@bigfoot.com > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nhcarrol > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nhcsandw > >