Yes it is online... I use the census images on Ancestry.com ... this is the
1870 Federal Census. This example is only the 2nd district that I checked
... Some of the Assistant Marshalls don't even appear in the census
themselves ... I also ran the stats on the census for Males born in Virginia
who moved to Georgia before the 1870 Census.
Oneof the interesting numbers is:
1860 Males born in VA now living in GA: 3,100
1870 Males born in VA now living in GA: 9,450
I could go on forever with this but this is just one of the examples of
interesting research.
Hannah Powell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kay Peninger" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] 1870 Southern Census Takers
> Hi, Hannah,
>
> Is this census online?
>
> Kay
>
> Kay C. Peninger
> Executive Director
> St. John's Church Foundation
> 2319 East Broad Street
> Richmond, VA 23223
>
> 804.649.0263 office
> 804.564.1002 cell
> 804.643.4412 fax
>
> www.historicstjohnschurch.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hannah Powell
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 3:43 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] 1870 Southern Census Takers
>
> In the 1870 Census of Jones County Georgia is the first example I can show
> you of a former slave being a county assistant Marshall.
> DEVEAUX, JAMES B. is the assistant Marshall of Jones Co., GA. He is a
> male
> mulatto age 25 born in Georgia and is a school teacher.
>
> The population breakdown of Jones County shows as follows:
>
> GAJones: Black Males: 3,043 Black Females: 3,279
>
> GAJones: White Males: 1,838 White Females: 1,829
>
> 1870/06/09/css/218A GAJones, Clinton PO. In Household #1 is CLARKE SLATTER
> age 52 male black, blacksmith $400 real estate, $200 personal property, b.
> GA; Frances age 48 female mulatto, tailoress, b. Dist. of Columbia;
> HARDEMAN, Julia 33 fm cook GA; GREEN, Dumas 14 mb GA; ... and living with
> Clarke Slatter is family #2 JAMES B. DEVERAU age 25 male mulatto, school
> teacher, b. Georgia, Louise M. 18 fm school teacher, b. SC; Laura 18 fm
> school teacher, b. GA; Isaac age 9/12 male mulatto b. August in GA.
>
> Neither of these heads of household are listed in the 1860 Federal Census.
> They are living in a large community of former slaves.
>
> Hannah Powell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James McCall" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 8:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] 1870 Southern Census Takers
>
>
> According to Foner at p,43 and later in his "A Short History of
> Reconstruction", educational initiatives for blacks in 1865-66 were one
> of
> the few successes of the Freedman Bureau, which had the help of Northern
> benevolent societies and "blacks themselves". By 1870, they already had a
> major impact, so undoubtedly this would have aided those so educated in
> performing the census.
>
> Jim McCall
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Hannah Powell wrote:
>
>> Many plantations had black overseers (Plantation record keepers). Many
>> whites as well as blacks were illiterate. Sometimes you can see on the
>> census a black head of household who is actually the overseer for a white
>> master and the household is all listed black.
>> Hannah Powell
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Kilby" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:35 PM
>> Subject: [VA-HIST] 1870 Southern Census Takers
>>
>>
>>> There were plenty of literate and educated people of color in 1870.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>> On Oct 28, 2010, at 9:14 AM, JEFFREY D SOUTHMAYD wrote:
>>>
>>>> Seems unlikely since the vast majority of slaves were illiterate and
>>> could neither read nor write.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> JDS
>>>
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