Lawrence County Ohio 1830 Census Index Submitted by Don Ort and Martha J. Martin
This is Lawrence County, Ohio, 1830 index of the census. You can view the actual microfilm for free on familysearch.org. Lawrence County, Ohio, became a county in 1817, so this would have been only the second census taken. Until 1850 the census taker was only required to give the name of the person that was considered the head of the household.
If there were a black man married to a white woman, the woman would have been considered the head of the household even if that black man was lawfully emancipated. I found this to be true in the case of Washington Murphy, who was legally a free man, but the census taker put Polly Murphy, who was white, as the head of the household.
Knowing these facts will help your research when you are researching someone before the 1850 census when the census taker was required to write down everyone living in the household. The following abbreviations were used for each township.
AI = AID TOWNSHIP
PE = PERRY TOWNSHIP
DE = DECATUR TOWNSHIP
RO = ROME TOWNSHIP
EL = ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP
SY = SYMMES TOWNSHIP
FA = FAYETTE TOWNSHIP
UN = UNION TOWNSHIP
LA = LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP
UP = UPPER TOWNSHIP
MA = MASON TOWNSHIP
WI = WINDSOR TOWNSHIP
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