Pope County, Illinois 1820 Federal Census This Census was transcribed by John C. Jacoby and proofread by Ginger Hayes for the USGenWeb Census Project http://www.us-census.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Transcriber's Notes: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The information in the schedules is presented under the names of heads of families. A statistical distribution is given for members of each family by race (including a distinction between free and slave Negroes), sex, and age group. Alongside the name of each head of a family certain statistical information is recorded in the vertical columns running from left to right across a schedule. The first 11 columns record the age-group distribution of white males (under 10, 10-15, 16-18,16-25,26-44, and 45 and over). The 12th column gives the number of foreigners not naturalized; the 13th, 14th and 15th columns show occupational classification (agriculture, commerce, and manufactures). The 16th to 19th, 20th to 23d, 24th to 27th, and 28th to 31st columns furnish, respectively, the age-group distribution of male slaves, female slaves, free male Negroes and free female Negroes (under 14, 15-25, 26-44, and 45 and over). The 32d column which is the last, is headed "All other persons except Indians not taxed." The only names, therefore, that appear in the schedules are of heads of families or of persons who were not enumerated within a family or household unit. Because printed forms were not generally used, all or part of the schedules of some localities carry less than the prescribed 32 columns. This apparently occurred in instances where no enumeration was made of persons belonging to groups ordinarily listed under these missing columns, or where the number of persons belonging to these groups was so small that they were listed numerically or by name at the end of the schedules of the locality in which they were enumerated. Column headings generally do not appear on the schedules themselves but are found at frequent intervals in a volume, usually at the beginning or end of the schedules of a subdivision. Recapitulations to totals appear at intervals throughout the schedules. These recapitulations were printed in summary form in the Census for 1820, Published by Authority of an Act of Congress, Under the Direction of the Secretary of State (Washington, 1821). This publication, a copy of which is in the National Archives, includes (1) totals of columnar statistical data carried in the schedules for the respective enumeration districts, (2) totals for each count, town, township, city, borough, and parish, and for some wards, (3) totals of columnar statistical data for the entire United States, including Territories, and (4) texts of documents relating to the taking of the census. Occasionally affidavits attesting to the posting of the returns have been inscribed on or attached to the schedules, and these affidavits have been photographed as they occur in the volumes. Blank pages and occasional manufacturing schedules, inadvertently bound in the volumes, have not been photographed. The original arrangement of a few of the schedules, which was disturbed when they were bound into volumes, has been largely restored on the microcopy. Although more than one set of numbers often appears on the schedules, the system of numbering, whether stamped or written, followed in preparing a table of contents for any particular volume is generally that which (1) runs consecutively from beginning to the end of the volume, and (2) appears to be consistent with the numbering in other volumes for the same State. Occasionally a schedule is unnumbered. In the case of entries relating to a single family and appearing on two facing pages both pages have usually been photographed on the same frame of the microcopy. This applies likewise to entries running vertically across two facing pages. All of the schedules are so reproduced on the microfilm that they occupy a normal reading position although many of them were bound otherwise in the volumes. These schedules are part of a body of records in the National Archives designated as Record Group 29, Records of the Bureau of the Census.