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Maine Census Resources
1820 Federal Census
Maine became a State on March 15, 1820

 

The 1790-1840 schedules furnish only the names of the free heads of family, not of other family members. These schedules totaled the number of other family members, without name, by free or slave status. Also, the sex and age categories that the schedules first used only for free whites from 1790 through 1810 eventually applied to other persons, and the age categories increased after 1790. Maine became a state in March, 1820. Th 1820 census of Matawasca in Penobscot County was not located; a transcript is in Charles W. Collins, The Acadians of Madawaska, Maine (Boston:1902), pp. 40-41. The Maine 1820 Census records are extant for all counties except part of Washington (missing Houlton Plantation and North Limerick).

Maine in 1820 consisted of the following counties: Cumberland, Hancock, Kennebec, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Somerset, Washington, and York.

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Source(s) for narrative on this page: Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790 - 1920 by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide. Copyright 1987. National Archives Records Administration (NARA).


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Special thanks to David Colby Young, Maine's previous State Coordinator.

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