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1810 Census of Manufacturers, Erie County PA

The United States Census of 1810 was the third Census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 6, 1810. The U.S. marshals and their assistants who took the census were instructed to obtain information about manufacturing. However, since they were not told what questions to ask, the information collected varied widely.

For the entire country there are many more categories. The information state by state can be obtained at http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/1810.htm.

“The period of the embargo and the War of 1812 was one in which public interest in manufacturing was greatly manifested. The most obvious reflections of this growing interest were the federal manufacturing censuses of 1810 and 1820. These censuses, heavily influenced by the pro-manufacturing rhetoric of the previous decades, were the first national efforts to identify and determine the size of the manufacturing sector in the new nation’s economy. They reflected the fluctuating definition of manufacturing, and they ultimately helped to redirect it away from older artisanal conceptions and toward the emerging notion of industrial capitalism. [Manufacturing Revolution - The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. Lawrence A. Peskin, The John Hopkins University Press, 2003]

A Series of Tables of Several Branches of American Manufacturers of Every County in the Union so far as they are returned in the reports of the Marshals, and of the secretaries and of their respective assistants, in the autumn of the year 1810: Together with returns of certain doubtful Goods, Productions of the Soil and agricultural stock, so far as they have been received.

Following are the categories in which there are tabulations for Erie County in 1810.

Cotton goods in families     Yards made:                                                           1,037

Flaxen cloth in families, &c.                Yards made:                                           20,217

Mixed cloth and hempen ditto chiefly mixed   Yards made:                           16

Woollen cloth in families, &c.            Yards made:                                           7,979

Total value in dollars of all kinds of cloths and stuffs                                   19,032

Hand cards            Number                                                                                  594

Spinning wheels   Number                                                                                  672

Looms    Number                                                                                                  149

Fulling mills

                Number                                                                                                  1

                Yards fulled                                                                                           3,000

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    380

Hats

                Number of hatteries                                                                             3

                Wool and mixed hats                                                                           1,200

                Fur hats

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    4,400

Nails

                Naileries                                                                                 1

                Pounds of nails                                                                                    18,000

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    3,600

Gun manufactories

                Number                                                                                                  1

                Guns

                Rifles

                Other

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    500

Black smiths

                No. of shops                                                                                         11

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    5,500

Gold and silver work and jewellery

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    250

Shoes, boots, slippers, trunks and saddlery

                Pairs of shores, boots and slippers                                                   310

                Trunks

                Saddles and bridles                                                                             24

                Value of shoes, boots and slippers, trunks and saddlery              1,638

Distilleries

                Number                                                                                                  9

                Gallons                                                                                                   6,950

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    3,906

Coopers shops

                Number                                                                                                  2

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    600

Potteries

                Number                                                                                                  1

                Pieces made

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    300

Printing

                Offices                                                                                                   1

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    700

Articles of a Doubtful nature or Agricultural

Wheat mills

                Number                                                                                                  11

                Bushels                                                                                                  33,000

                Barrels

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    33,000

Saw mills

                Number                                                                                                  16

                Feet                                                                                                        1,600,000

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    8,000

Maple sugar

                Pounds                                                                                                  45,906

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    820

Bricks

                Number of kilns                                                                                    1

                No. of bricks                                                                                         60,000

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    360

Lime

                Kilns                                                                                                       1

                Bushels                                                                                                  2,000

                Value in Dollars                                                                                    250

Stock

                Horses                                                                                                   993

                Neat cattle                                                                                             4,011

                Merino sheep of the whole blood

                Tunis mountains or broad tailed sheep

                Common sheep as expressly named in returns                               3,619