Wayne County, Tennessee
1840 Federal Census

Transcribed by Edgar D. Byler, III

Transcribed from NARA Microfilm Publication M704, Roll # 899 (Sixth Census of the United States, 1840). Originally published in "Wayne County, Tennessee Census Records Volume I: 1820, 1830 & 1840", The Byler Press, 1974.

Only the name of the head of each household is listed. All other individuals living in the household are listed by the number of individuals in a given age group with the exception that pensioners living in a household were listed by name and specific age and will appear in parentheses directly after the name of the head of household. A question mark appearing inside brackets (e.s. [?]) indicates a question by the transcriber concerning the name or its spelling.

This transcription follows the standard shorthand enumeration. The column headings for this census are

Free Whites:
Male: under 5 years/5 to 10/10 to 15/15 to 20/20 to 30/30 to 40/40 to 50/50 to 60/60 to 70/70 to 80/80 to 90/90 to 100/100 and up.
Female: under 5 years/5 to 10/10 to 15/15 to 20/20 to 30/30 to 40/40 to 50/50 to 60/60 to 70/70 to 80/80 to 90/90 to 100/100 and up.

Slaves and free colored persons:
Male: under 10/10 to 24/24 to 36/36 to 55/55 to 100/ 100 and up.
Female: under 10/10 to 24/24 to 36/36 to 55/55 to 100/ 100 and up.

For the purpose of this transcription, slaves are given as a whole number following the free while females. Free persons of color are listed as enumerated.

For example on page 67, the first entry:

Thomas Franklin        310001-/120001-

This mean that in the household of Thomas Franklin the following people were living:

3 males between the ages of 0 and less than 5 years
1 male between the age of 5 and less than 10 years
0 males between the age of 10 and less than 15 years
0 males between the age of 15 and less than 20 years
0 males between the age of 20 and less than 30 years
1 male between the age of 30 and less than 40 years
- no other entries in the male columns.
/
1 female between the age of 0 and less than 5 years
2 females between the ages of 5 and less than 10 years
0 females between the age of 10 and less than 15 years
0 females between the age of 15 and less than 20 years
0 females between the age of 20 and less than 30 years
1 female between the age of 30 and less than 40 years.
- no other entries in the female columns.
since there are no other numbers following the last dash, there were no slaves living in the household.

Free blacks if living in the household would be enumerated separately, following the last column of the white females, and would be listed by free black males and free black females.

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