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From: Joan Majtenyi <>
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] 1776 Census
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:10:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20091122225418.ED4C511581F@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com>


Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Mike. The maps are helpful too, though I
was interested particularly in the Elizabeth Hundred. Although these are the
original censuses, they are nothing like those of the other counties. They
just make lists of all males between 16 and 50. Females, etc. separately so
you don't see families. Nevertheless I intend to go through them to see who
I can spot. I guess that Ancestry didn't include these because they believed
them too problematic, but it was frustrating to have it stop just at
Elizabeth Hundred. Hope I can do something for you sometime, Joan


On 11/22/09 5:54 PM, "Mike Rohrer" <> wrote:

> Joan,
> Bear in mind that Elizabeth Hundred was only a small part of present day
> Washington County. You can see that from the map here:
> http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/MD/washington/wacohundreds.gif
> But, the good news is I've located the images online, here:
> http://tinyurl.com/ylx2gy3
> Mike
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> Mike, I am grateful for your help, but remain skeptical about this
>> particular site. Just to check I entered Walker, no first name, and Prince
>> George's Co, all parishes. The answer came up no Walkers found. BUT when I
>> checked the original census, and I've covered only about half the 1776 pages
>> so far, I found data For Charles, Joseph, Isaac, James, William, John and
>> Henry Walker. I do not understand this. Joan
>>
>>
>> On 11/22/09 2:03 PM, "Mike Rohrer" <> wrote:
>>
>>> A quick point... There was no Washington County at the time of the census.
>>> Rohrers whom I know to have been in the now Hagerstown vicinity are listed
>>> in
>>> the census as being in Elizabeth Hundred, Frederick County. From what I've
>>> read, the 1776 census was commissioned in July 1776, at which time Elizabeth
>>> Hundred would still have been part of Frederick County.
>>> Washington County was
>>> not created until 6 September 1776. MR
>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Mike, but I'm not sure that this does include Elizabeth Hundred.
>


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