Source:Leigh, Kathy. 1840 Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services
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Source 1840 Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services
with the Names, Ages, And Places of Residence Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts Under The Act For Taking the Sixth Census Published By Authority of an Act of Congress Under the Direction of the Secretary of State
Author Leigh, Kathy
Coverage
Subject Census records
Publication information
Type Book
Publisher U. P. James
Date issued 2001
Citation
Leigh, Kathy. 1840 Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services: with the Names, Ages, And Places of Residence Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts Under The Act For Taking the Sixth Census Published By Authority of an Act of Congress Under the Direction of the Secretary of State. (U. P. James, 2001).
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Bibliographic Citation

Leigh,Kathy, 2001. 1840 Census Of Pensioners Revolutionary Or Military Services With The Names, Ages, And Places Of Residence Returned By The Marshalls Of The Several Judicial Districts Under The Act For Taking The Sixth Census Published By Authority Of An Act Of Congress Under The Direction Of The Secretary Of State. Washington: Printed by Blair and Rives,1841; Retyped, Reformatted, and Reprinted by Kathy Leigh, 2001

See: Source:United States. A Census of pensioners for Revolutionary or military services

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Electronic Source

USGenNet

Searchable images of the original census are available online at: EveNDon.net Available as of 20 April 2008.

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Notes

From the Introduction to Source:Leigh, 2001:

The 1840 Census of Pensioners, Revolutionary and Military Services was originally compiled by the federal government from the 1840 U.S. Federal Census, which required enumerators (census takers) to list the names and ages of Revolutionary War and other federal military service pensioners in households.

The 1840 census did not include the ages of any household members other than military pensioners, and no names appear in it other than those of military pensioners and heads of household. All other household members were enumerated numerically using what are commonly referred to as "fence post tallies," meaning that each household member was categorized by race, sex and free/slave status, with the totals for each category entered by the census-taker in the appropriate column

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