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To begin
your search, click on the initial letter of your research subject's surname to
see a list of slaves and owners recorded under that surname (No
surnames beginning with 'I', 'Q', or 'X' were recorded by the census
takers in the 1850
U.S. Slave Schedule of Boone Co., Ky.)
Slaves & Owners Enumerated in the
1860
U.S. Census of Boone County, Kentucky
Actually, the 1850 & 1860
enumerations were not really much more than had been done in the years before to
count the slave population; it is just that a separate record with preformatted
printed pages was created from the
general population schedule of the white and “free colored” population.
In 1850 the categories which
were recorded were as follows:
By 1860 little more was
demanded of the census enumerators, and only one category was added to those of
1850, the number of slave houses provided by each owner for his/her slaves.
Very few of the spaces for
“Fugitive,” “# Manumitted,” & “Deaf, Dumb, & Idiot,” & "# Slave Houses”
were filled in and so
in order to facilitate printing and to make less-cluttered web pages I have combined these statistics into a single
column entitled “Other Statistics Recorded.”
The names on the pages are in alphabetical
order, and then in the order as the slaves were recorded on each page of the
slave schedules. No effort was ordered to record each owners slaves as
families, if they were known to exist to the census taker, and instead were
recorded in the order of their age. However, rather than resorting the
statistics by any other order than they were originally recorded, I left them in
the original order as it cannot be said with certainty that no effort was made
to record the slaves as families. Plus, it makes a comparison with the
1870 and later U.S. Census records much easier, when the former slaves were
recorded as free men and women for the first time.
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The Original
Instructions to the
Marshals (Census
Takers) in Compiling
the
1860 U.S. Census
Slave Schedule
for the United States
SCHEDULE No. 2.-
SLAVE
INHABITANTS.
This schedule is to be
filled up in the following manner: The heading is to be filled up in all
respects after the manner of Schedule No, 1, omitting only the name of post
office.
1. Owners of Slaves.--
Under heading No. I insert, in proper consecutive order, the names of all
owners of slaves. When slaves are the property of a corporation, enter the
name of the corporation. If held in trust for persons who have attained to
their majority, whose names as owners do not elsewhere appear, the names of
such persons way be entered, or their number, as "John Smith and two
others;" always provided that the "others" do not appear as owners in other
places. If held in trust for minors, give the number of such minors. The
desire is to obtain a true return of the number of owners.
2. Number of Slaves.--
Under heading 2, entitled "Number of slaves," insert, in regular numerical
order, the number of all the slaves, of both sexes. and of every age,
belonging to the owner whose name you have recorded. In the case of slaves,
numbers are to be substituted for names. The description of every slave, as
numbered, is to be recorded, and you are to enumerate such slaves as may be
temporarily absent, provided they are usually held to service in your
subdivision.
The slaves of each owner
are to be numbered separately, beginning with the older at No. 1. The person
in whose charge, or on whose plantation the slave is found to be employed
may return all slaves in his charge, (although they may be owned by other
persons,) provided they are not returned by their proper owner. The name of
the bona fide owner should be returned as proprietor, and the name of the
person having them in charge as employer.
3. Ages.-- Under
heading 3, entitled "Age," insert, in figures, the specific age of each
slave opposite the number of such slave. If the exact age cannot be
ascertained insert a number which shall be the nearest approximation
thereto. The exact or estimated age of every slave in to be inserted. If the
slave be a child which on the 1st day of June was less than one year old the
entry is to be made by fractional parts of a year, as directed in Rule 7,
Schedule 1. Slaves who (born previously) have died since the lst day of June
are to be entered as living, and all details respecting them to be given
with as much care as if the slave were living, You an desired to give the
names of all slaves whom age reaches or exceeds 100 years.
4. Sex.-- Under
heading 4, opposite each number, insert "m" for male, and "f" for female, in
all cases, as the fact way be. In the case of slaves it is very essential
that the sex be specified, because of the entire omission of name. The
compensation for all returns where this fact is omitted will be reduced.
5. Color.-- Under
heading 5, entitled "Color," insert, in all cases where the slave is black,
the letter "B." When he or she is a mulatto insert "M." You are to note the
color of every slave. Those who are in any degree of mixed blood are to be
termed mulatto, "M."
6. Fugitives.--
Under heading 6 insert, in figures, opposite the name of the owner, a mark
or number designating the fugitives who, having escaped within the year,
have not been returned to their owners. Such fugitives are to be described
as fully as if in possession of their masters. No allusion is to be made
respecting such as may have absconded subsequent to the 1st day of June;
they are to be recorded as if in possession of their proper owners.
7. No. Manumitted.--
In column No. 7, insert opposite the name of the former owner thereof the
number of slaves manumitted within the year ending on the 1st day of June.
The name of the person is to be given although at the time of the
enumeration, or on the 1st day of June, such person may have held no slaves.
The description of all the slaves manumitted may or may not be given at your
pleasure, but the number manumitted must be clearly expressed. If you
describe them separately, write "manumitted" under the name of the former
owner in a line with each one described. If the former owner of slaves
manumitted within the year should have died or removed, such circumstance is
not to obviate the necessity of their enumeration as directed.
8. Deaf and Dumb,
Blind, Insane, Idiotic.-- You should be particular in every instance to
inquire whether any slave comes within the above description, and, if so
insert the fact in column 8, opposite the number and general description of
such slave. If slaves be found imprisoned convicts, mention the crime in
column 8, and the date of conviction in the vacant space No. 1. By carefully
observing the following schedule, you will experience no difficulty in
making proper returns:
9. Number of Slave
Houses.-- In column 9 you will insert the number of slave tenements or
dwellings on every farm and plantation, and in every family where slaves are
held you will inquire what number of separate tenements are occupied by
slaves, and you will insert the number in every instance on a line with the
last slave described as belonging to the person or estate whereof you are
instituting inquiry. We wish by this column to learn the number of occupied
houses, the abode of slaves, belonging to each slaveholder.
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