State and Colonial Censuses Available at the
New England Historic Genealogical Society
By David
Allen Lambert, NEHGS
Federal
censuses provide a tremendous amount of information, but all genealogists
wish they could look in on individuals and families more frequently than
once every ten years. State censuses, often taken halfway between the
federal census years, might allow you to take stock of a family outside of
those ten year parameters. In addition, similar records - such as
military censuses and tax lists - might also provide the extra information
you are seeking.
Below you
will find a list of the state censuses, special censuses, and tax lists for
the six New England states and New York available at the New England
Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. The number in brackets is the
Library of Congress call number. If the notation “also Loan” is
included in the call number, members of NEHGS can borrow the item from the
NEHGS Circulating Library by mail.
For a more
detailed description and general inventory of state census records,
including non-New England and New York records, consult
State Census Records by Ann S.
Lainhart (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992). This book is
available at the NEHGS Research Library in Boston, and, for NEHGS members,
through the NEHGS Circulating Library. The call number is
MT/HA/215/L25/1992.
CONNECTICUT
1917-1918
Military Census .
Contains an alphabetical index of names,
with over 500,000 questionnaires.
Index: Microfilm [F93/C66] 151 rolls; and microfilm of questionnaires #
1-502980 and miscellaneous questionnaires: [F93/C66 and F93/C67]
MAINE
See the Massachusetts and Maine Direct
Tax Census of 1798.
MASSACHUSETTS
1771 Direct Tax Census.
Betty H. Pruitt,
The Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771
(Camden, Me.: Picton Press, 1998). [REF/F63/P838/1998/also
Loan].
1798 Direct Tax Census.
Massachusetts and Maine
Direct Tax Census of 1798.
[F63/M343/1978/also Loan] 18 rolls.
1855 State Census.
Microfilm
arranged by county, then town. [F63/M375] 31 rolls.
1865 State Census.
Microfilm
arranged by county, then town. [F63/M375] 37 rolls.
1855
and 1865 Censuses.
The records for the following towns
were transcribed by Ann S. Lainhart and are available in printed format at
the Microtext Department at NEHGS.
Acton, Bedford, Billerica, Boxboro, Boxford,
Bradford, Bridgewater, Brighton, Burlington, Charlestown, Chelmsford,
Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Duxbury, East Bridgewater, Essex, Georgetown,
Groton, Groveland, Halifax, Hamilton, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Holliston,
Hopkinton, Hull, Ipswich, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Lynnfield,
Manchester, Marlboro, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Medford, Melrose,
Middleboro, Middleton, Nahant, Natick, North Andover, North Bridgewater,
Pembroke, Plympton, Rochester, Rockport, Saugus, Sherborn, Shirley, South
Reading, Stoneham, Stow, Sudbury, Swampscott, Tewksbury, Townsend,
Topsfield, Wareham, Watertown, Wayland, Wenham, West Boxford, West
Bridgewater, West Cambridge, West Newbury, Westford, Weston, Wilmington,
Winchester.
The records
for the following towns were published in the
Berkshire Genealogist: [F72/B5/B45]. The citations are for the first
article for each series of transcriptions.
Alford -
Berkshire Genealogist (1990) 11:25
Becket –
Berkshire Genealogist (1985) 4:86
Cheshire -
Berkshire Genealogist (1986) 7:43
Clarksburg -
Berkshire Genealogist (1989) 10:85
Egremont -
Berkshire Genealogist (1993) 14:65
Florida -
Berkshire Genealogist (1990) 11:117
Great Barrington -
Berkshire Genealogist (2001) 22:102
Hancock -
Berkshire Genealogist (1991) 12:96
Lee - Berkshire
Genealogist (1994) 15:94
Mt. Washington -
Berkshire Genealogist (1989) 10:52
New Ashford -
Berkshire Genealogist (1989) 10:125
North Becket -
Berkshire Genealogist (1985) 6:81
Richmond -
Berkshire Genealogist (2000) 21:103
Savoy -
Berkshire Genealogist (1992) 13:98
Tyringham -
Berkshire Genealogist (1988) 9:92
NEW HAMPSHIRE
1732
Census.
Jay Mack Holbrook, New Hampshire 1732
Census (Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research Institute, 1981).
[REF/F33/H63/1981/ also Loan].
1776 Census.
Jay Mack Holbrook, New Hampshire 1776
Census (Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research Institute, 1976).
[REF/F33/H64/also Loan].
NEW YORK
A guide by
Marilyn Douglas and Melinda Yates, New
York State Census Records, 1790-1925 (Albany, N.Y.: State
Education Department, University of the State of New York, 1981).
[REF/F118/D68/1981/also Loan].
1855 State Census. An un-indexed
microfilm collection; NEHGS has partial holdings. The following
counties are available at NEHGS: Broome, Chautauqua, Chemung,
Columbia, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Herkimer, Lewis, Livingston, Niagara,
Orleans, Rensselear, Richmond, Rochester, Schoharie, Schenectady, Ulster,
Warren, Wayne.
RHODE ISLAND
1747–1755 Registered Voters Census.
Bruce C. MacGunnigle, Rhode Island Freeman,
1747-1755: A Census of Registered Voters (Baltimore:
Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977). [REF/F78/M32/1977/ also Loan].
1774 Census.
Microfilm [F78/C46] 1 roll; and available in printed format: John R.
Bartlett,
Census of the Inhabitants of the Colony of
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 1774 (Baltimore: Genealogical
Publishing Co.,1969). [MT/F78/A59/1969/also Loan].
1777 Census. Microfilm [F78/C46] 1 roll; and available in
printed format: Mildred F. M. Chamberlain,
Rhode Island 1777 Military Census (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing
Co., 1969). [E263/R4/C48/1985/also Loan].
1782 Census.
Microfilm [F78/J29/1988]; and available in printed format: Jay Mack
Holbrook, Rhode Island 1782 Census
(Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research Institute, 1979). [F78/H47/1979/also
Loan].
1865 Census. Microfilm census
index [F78/R51/1865]. Microfilm census records [F78/R57/1865] 7 rolls.
1875 Census. Microfilm census
records [F78/R57/1875] 9 rolls.
1885 Census.
Microfilm census
records [F78/R57/1885] 12 rolls.
1915 Census. Microfilm
statewide index and census [F78/R57/1915] 24 rolls.
1925 Census.
Microfilm census records [F78/R57/1925] 19 rolls.
1936 Census.
Microfilm census
records, arranged by town, then alphabetically [F78/R57/1936] 133 rolls.
VERMONT
1771 Census. Jay Mack Holbrook,
Vermont 1771 Census
(Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research Institute, 1982). [F48/H7/1982].
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