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Census: 1850 Federal Census: Cool Spring Township, Part - I, Mercer County, PA
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Mercer County
1850 Census
Cool Spring Township
The following 1850 census transcription for Cool Spring Township,
Mercer County, Pennsylvania was contributed by Richard S. Winder.
He has made this transcription freely available to all
Mercer County researchers. However, he still retains all rights to
this compilation and he should be contacted before any non-private
use of this work. You can search for surnames using the Find button
on your browser. An everyname index is now available.
Population Schedules of the 7th Census of the United States, 1850
Record Group 29, Records of the Bureau of the Census, M432, Seventh
Census of the U.S., Roll 796
Pennsylvania, Mercer County
United States National Archives, Washington D.C. 1964
Cool Spring Township
Cool Spring Township, Aug. 28 - Sept. 8, enumerated by R. Henderson
Transcription by Richard S. Winder
© 1997 Richard S. Winder, 5614 Woodlands Rd., Sooke, British
Columbia, V0S 1N0, Canada
This transcript may be shared as long as this copyright notice
remains in place.
Based in part on a typewritten transcript made by
Laura Olmsted Jennings, April 19, 1968
made available courtesy of
The Mercer County Genealogical Society and Beverly Liston.
Verified from microfilm by Richard S. Winder.
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Each schedule header shows information in the following order:
1. Schedule number for township/borough (1 schedule per microfilm
frame)
2. Frame locator number (Reference numbers on edge of microfilm -
they are approximate and do not correspond 1/frame)
3. Date of enumeration
The entries in this transcript show information in the following
order:
1. Approximate Line number on the schedule (usually, there are 42
lines per schedule)
2. Dwelling number for township, in order of visitation
3. Family number for township, in order of visitation
4. Name (Name of family member since June, 1850, with head of
household listed first)
5. Age (m = months, originally shown as twelfth fractions of a
year)
6. Sex
7. Race (According to the schedules, B = Black, M = Mulatto, W =
White. Most were left as a blank, probably meaning W)
8. Occupation of males 16 and over
9. Value of property in $
10. Birthplace (Pa. = Pennsylvania)
11. Note (See codes below)
Codes for notes section:
A = Art (a child, possibly Ths., drew a rather interesting face on
this part of the schedule).
B = Blind
D = Deaf
Dd = Deaf and dumb
E = Adults that cannot read or write English
I = "Idiot" or "Idiotic" (enumerator's term)
In = Insane
M = Married within last year
Mp = Married in PA
P = "Pauper"
Nc = "Non. Com." (Non-communicative?)
Oo = Family number out of order on schedule
Ov = Overlapped numbering error, noted by letters after numbers.
S = Attended School within last year
T = Twin
W = Widow (recorded as a "W" next to the name)
*Dw = Dwelling no. corrected from this point down
*V = Visit no. out of order, corrected from this point down to
prevent overlap conflicts
Number of individuals listed: 2730
Notes: Numbering for Cool Spring Twp. began on line 39 with
dwelling 925, family 945.
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Schedule No. 29, Frame No. 598, Enumeration Date 31 Aug
28 1114 1135 CANNON, James 47 M Farmer Pa.
29 1114 1135 CANNON, Martha 38 F Pa.
30 1114 1135 CANNON, Thomas 20 M Farmer Pa. S
31 1114 1135 CANNON, Ausby 15 M Farmer Pa. S
32 1114 1135 CANNON, Mary 12 F Pa. S
33 1114 1135 CANNON, Margaret 10 F Pa. S
34 1114 1135 CANNON, Caroline 6 F Pa. S
35 1114 1135 CANNON, Ewen 1 M Pa.
Schedule No. 33, Frame No. 602, Enumeration Date 02 Sep 1850
4 1138 1159 CANON, Samuel 45 M Farmer 2000 Pa.
5 1138 1159 CANON, Nancy 43 F Pa.
6 1138 1159 CANON, Nancy 15 F Pa.
7 1138 1159 CANON, Almira 14 F Pa.
8 1138 1159 CANON, Lafayette 11 M Pa. S
9 1138 1159 CANON, Alvina 7 F Pa.