"Burned-Over District" Counties in 1830
Heads of Households -- Alphabetical by Co. & Twp.:
Northern tier:
Niagara,
Orleans,
Monroe,
Wayne
Central tier: Erie,
Genesee,
Livingston,
Ontario,
Yates,
Southern tier: Chautauqua,
Cattaraugus,
Allegany
(see Example 2 below for explanation of these county files
(Steuben County not included)
1830s Twp. Maps & Twp Creation Dates for Each Co.:
Northern tier:
Niagara,
Orleans,
Monroe,
Wayne
Central tier: Erie,
Genesee,
Livingston,
Ontario,
Yates,
Southern tier: Chautauqua,
Cattaraugus,
Allegany
Steuben Co. (sorry, data not included at this web-site)
Compilation of 1830 Indices for all 12 counties:
surnames beginning with "A" surnames beginning with "N"
surnames beginning with "B" surnames beginning with "O"
surnames beginning with "C" surnames beginning with "P"
surnames beginning with "D" surnames beginning with "Q"
surnames beginning with "E" surnames beginning with "R"
surnames beginning with "F" surnames beginning with "S"
surnames beginning with "G" surnames beginning with "T"
surnames beginning with "H" surnames beginning with "U"
surnames beginning with "I" surnames beginning with "V"
surnames beginning with "J" surnames beginning with "W"
surnames beginning with "K" surnames beginning with "X"
surnames beginning with "L" surnames beginning with "Y"
surnames beginning with "M" surnames beginning with "Z"
1830 Census Indices: Important Considerations:
The 1830 Federal Census data provided via the above links is not a reproduction of the original census-takers' reports, nor is it a digital representation of those original reports. Rather, this information is an e-text compilation of the alphabetized indices for each county and township located in the "Burned-Over District" (Steuben County not included here -- Erie and Monroe counties under construction).
The tabulated surname index data provided via the above links includes:
1) Surname of head of "household" in 1830, 2) Given name of that person, 3) County and Township where that "household" resided in 1830.
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Example One: Excerpt from "C" names for 1830
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Surname
Cowder
COWDERY (Cowdry)
COWDERY (Cowdry)
COWDERY
COWDERY (Cowdry)
Cowe
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Given Name
Elish
John
Lyman
Warren
William
James
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County
Chautauqua
Livingston
Wayne
Cattaraugus
Wayne
Wayne
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Township
Pomfret
Geneseo
Arcadia
Freedom
Arcadia
Sodus
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The Example One excerpt shown above (from the 1830 "C" names html file)
indicates that "Elish Cowder" lived in Pomfret County, Chautaqua Twp., NY and was the head of
his household in 1830; William Cowdery and three of his sons are shown as living in the
"Burned-Over District" in 1830, as well as James Cowe, who lived in Wayne County, Sodus Twp.
Please note that the original census takers exercised a great deal of personal interpretation when
they solicited and wrote down names in their reports. This resulted in both family names and given
names being spelled in many different ways in those reports. When indices were compiled from the
original census takers' written pages, the names were often partly illegible and were mis-copied
in transcription. Also, when typewriters were used in compiling transcribed tabulations, letters
in names were frequently transposed, doubled, or dropped altogether. The "Elish Cowder" shown in
the above example was
probably named "Elisha," and his surname may have been "Cowden" or "Cowdery," or some other similar
name. Because such errors occur very frequently in the e-text tabulations the viewer should exercise
a great deal of caution in accepting the data presented here at "face value."
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Example Two: Excerpt from Wayne Co. for 1830
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Surname
Bostwick
Corbin
COWDERY (Cowdry)
...
COWDERY (Cowdry)
Culver
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Given Name
Hannah
Lyman
Lyman
...
William
Cooper
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Township
Arcadia
Arcadia
Arcadia
...
Arcadia
Arcadia
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Page
73
73
73
...
87
87
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The 1830 census county indices provided here are in text format, with surname,
given name, township, and census taker's page number tabulated in four columns.
These files are sorted by page number. Within the listing for each page
number the surnames are sorted alphabetically. To determine whether or not a
given person's name occurs
within any particular county index, first consult the
alphabetic html compilation for the entire 1830
"Burned-Over District" census reprots.
The Example Two table shown above is an html representation of an excerpt
from the 1830 Wayne County
text file. This excerpt indicates that William Cowdery and his son Lyman both
lived in Wayne County, Arcadia Twp., NY and were the heads of households in 1830.
Since William Cowdery's entry is on the census taker's page 87 and Lyman Cowdery's
entry is on page 73 of the same record, it is likely that their receptive dwelling
places were not located side-by-side. It is likely that Hannah Boswick and Lyman
Corbin were closer neighbors to Lyman Cowdery than was his father, William Cowdery.
It is also likely that Cooper Culver lived closer to William Cowdery than did his
son Lyman Cowdery.
Caution must be exercised in making assumptions such as this, however. Sometimes a
census taker would travel one country road, making entries in the original record,
and not return to an adjacent road until much later in the day, or on a subsequent
day. Thus, persons who lived close to one another in Arcadia Twp. in 1830 may be
recorded widely separated pages in the 1830 census record.
Even with this precautionary advice in mind, it is still useful to consult
consecutive pages in the original census record in order to get a general idea
of who a certain person's neighbors may have been. The tabulations persented here
do not list each person's name in the exact same order in which it appears
on the page in the original record.
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