Blackford County, IN 1850 Federal Census TOWNSHIP INFORMATION The files on-line for this transcription are in the following directory: http://us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/in/blackford/1860/ ABOUT BLACKFORD COUNTY: Blackford County is named for Judge Isaac Blackford, who was the first speaker of the Indiana General Assembly and a long-time chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court. The land that would become Blackford County was originally the western part of Jay County. Several sources list the creation year for Blackford County as 1837. However, the law was not finalized until 1838. Indiana bill of the House No. 152 was originally for the creation of a county named Windsor. The name "Windsor" was replaced with the name "Blackford" by the House of Representatives in January 1838. An "act for the formation of the county of Blackford" was approved on February 15, 1838. Microfilm Roll# M653-245 ============================================================================================ TOWNSHIP STAMPED STATUS DESCRIPTION PAGE#-RANGE TRANSCRIBER PROOFREADER ============================================================================================ On-Line Licking 1-36 Robert E. Lane Linda Talbott On-Line Washington 37-56 Robert E. Lane Linda Talbott On-Line Harrison 57-86 Robert E. Lane Linda Talbott On-Line Jacksonn 87-105 Robert E. Lane Linda Talbott ============================================================================================ This Census was transcribed by Robert E. Lane and proofread by Linda Talbott for The USGenWeb Census Project®, http://www.us-census.org/ ============================================================================================