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 re

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:

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.

Inhabitants, 1,550; families, 238; houses, 215; scholars, 715.

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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