Judith Bailey Gabor wrote on 12 November 2008:

"The 1810 federal census has a column for quantity of cloth.

"What was the unit of measure?

"Would this be the quantity of cloth made in the household?

"Would this be all cloth or just certain fabrics?"

That very much surprised me because I had not seen anything like that in
any early federal census returns for Virginia. One of my colleagues
starting clicking around on Google and found that in 1810 the census
enumerators for 28 North Carolina counties reported data about looms,
stills, and tanneries with statistics about production. She did not find
references to any other statistics concerning other states, but not
finding something on the Google doesn't mean it isn't there.

(And sometimes, I think, finding something on Google doesn't prove that
it is there.)

Anybody else out there know anything about this or like this?

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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