Source:Morgan, Ohio, United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule

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The population schedules of the fourth census (1820) of the United States are reproduced by the National Archives on the 142 rolls of Microcopy #33. The schedules for each state or territory are bound in one or more volumes. The volumes, each of which is on a separate roll, are arranged alphabetically by name of state, territory, and the District of Columbia, and thereunder by volume number. The ten volumes for the 59 counties of the state of Ohio are on rolls 86–95. The seventh volume, roll 92, contains the schedules for the counties of Fayette, Highland, Morgan, Muskingum, Richland, and Ross.

Morgan County begins on page 68 of the seventh volume and spans 26 images on roll 92. The table below shows the populations of the places as they were subdivided in the population schedules. Note that New Market (later known as Deavertown) was apparently enumerated separately in the schedules, but it was included in the York Township totals in the state recapitulation at the end of the tenth volume.

The official enumeration day of the census was 7 August 1820. This census was the first U.S. census since the establishment of Morgan County in 1817 and its organization in 1819. Because slavery was abolished by the Ohio constitution, no slaves were reported in Morgan County. Only one free colored family was enumerated (in Brookfield Township).