CHAPTER X. POPULATION. Census, Aug. 1, 1790. — Abstracts from Censuses. — Hawes's Census in 1826. - State Census, March 1, 1837. When the census was taken in 1790, Henry Dearborn was marshal of the District of Maine. The other United States marshals gave details. He gave only summary statements. Accordingly, all that was to be learned from his return is that, Aug. 1, 1790, Union contained two hundred inhabitants. Perhaps this was but little more than conjecture. The following statements are from subsequent returns : • Including 32 males between 16 and 18 years of age. In 1820, there were 291 persons engaged in agriculture, 7 in commerce, and 59 in manufactures. In 1826, Mr. Noyes P. Hawes prepared the following document, giving the name and number of members of each family, and the number of houses, classified according to school districts: SCHOOL DISTRICTS. – No. I. John Little 6 Josiah F. Day Daniel F. Harding Bradley R. Mowry Rufus Gillmor . Joseph Vaughan Marcus Gillmor Susman Abrams Elisha Harding 5 Spencer Walcott Abner Pitts 6 John Drake Zaccheus Litchfield Jesse Drake Elisha Bemis Abiel Gay Ebenezer Alden 10 David Gay Amos Barrett 5 Elijah Gay Levi Morse 11 Amos Walker Gorham Butler David Bullen John Butler 9 Aaron Young John S. Bartlett 10 13 4 6 9 12 5 6 4 9 6 8 10 Nathan Daniels Betsey Richards John Payson * Of whom two were blind. † Including two insane or idiots at private charge. In 1840, according to the census, there were 330 persons engaged in agriculture, 13 in commerce, 93 in manufactures and trades, 7 in navigation, 7 in the learned professions and engineering; and 4 were revolutionary pensioners. 10 Ezra Bowen 6 5 Moses Simmons c. 6106 C1 CT No. II. Jason Robbins Henry True John Jones John Pearce Robbins Samuel Jameson Abraham Brown Royal Grinnell 104 Alpheus Collamore Reuben Hills, jun. Nathan Hills 7 Samuel Hills, 28 9 Josiah Hills Lewis Robbins Reuben Hills 5 George Silloway 7 Josiah Hills Jonathan Eastman 10 Jonathan Sibley 11 Patrick Tenney 6 No. V. 3 Samuel Daggett Ebenezer Daggett 10 William Daggett Nathaniel Bachelor Phinehas Butler 9 7 4 11 8 11 9 7 2 6 9 . 4 Joel Adams . Navo Nathan Bachelder No. VII. Robert Thompson 7 Timothy Stewart 5 Thomas Butler Elkanah Morton Ebenezer Blunt Penty Walcott . 10 Jonathan Carriel Jonathan Carriel, jun. 13 Isaac Booth 8 Samuel Norwood Luther Bryant 5 William Bryant 8 James Bryant 9 Judith Clark 6 Whedon 2 7 2 5 11 9 3 5 5 5 14 5 No. IX. John Whiting 12 John Swan John Fogler Charles R. Hunnewell Samuel Hills Polly Gleason Sanford Hills Fisher Hart Moses Morse John M. Thorndike Nathan Daniels, jun. 4 Phillips C. Harding Robert Foster 10 Aaron Hart Mrs. Wingate 3 William Hart Benjamin Dow 4 John F. Hart Leonard Follansbee 8 No. X. Ezekiel Hagar 4 Martin Sidelinger Samuel Hagar 8 Leonard Bump Benjamin L. Law Inhabitants, 1,550 ; families, 238; houses, 215; scholars, 715. 2 5 8 66 A census of the inhabitants in town, March 1, 1837, was taken by William Gleason, Esq. in conformity with an Act of the Legislature requiring it before the town could receive its proportion of the “surplus revenue.” At that time, the number of persons under 4 years of age was 230; from 4 to 21 years of age, 742; and there were 782 persons who were more than 21 years of age, - making a total of 1,754. CHAPTER XI. POPULATION IN 1850. Census, June 1, 1850, with Names and Ages. The following census was also taken by William Gleason, Esq. At the time, particular attention was not given to the spelling, and probably several of the names are not printed as commonly written. Members of the same family not unfrequently spell the name differently, and there are some cases in which a person does not always observe uniformity in spelling his own name. The order in which the names were |
