1870 Cabarrus County Census

Explanation of Column Headings:
Column #1: Dwelling-house, numbered in the order of visitation.
Column #2: Families, numbered in the order of visitation.
Column #3: The names of every person whose place of abode on the first day of June 1870, was in the family.
Column #4: Age at last birthday. If under one, give age in fraction, example 2/12.
Column #5: Sex – Male (M.), Female (F.)
Column #6: Color – White (W.), Black (B.), Mulatto (M), Chinese (C.), Indian (I.)
Column #7: Profession, Occupation or Trade of each person male or female
Column #8: Value of Real Estate
Column #9: Value of Personal Estate
Column #10: Place of Birth, naming State or Territory of U.S.; or the Country, if of foreign Birth
Column #11: Father of foreign birth
Column #12: Mother of foreign birth
Column #13: If born within the year, state month (Jan., Feb., etc.)
Column #14: If married within the year, state month (Jan., Feb., etc.)
Column #15: Attended school within the year
Column #16: Cannot read
Column #17: Cannot write
Column #18: Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane or idiotic
Column #19: Male citizens of U.S. of 21 years of age and upwards
Column #20: Male citizens of U.S. of 21 years of age and upwards whose right to vote is denied or abridged on other grounds than rebellion or other crime

Page No. 1 Inquires numbered 7, 16, and 17 are not to be asked in respect to infants.       
Inquires numbered 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, and 20 are to be answered, if at all,              
merely by an affirmative mark, as /.

Schedule 1. – Inhabitants in Township No. 6, in the County of Cabarrus [seal of census office]
of North Carolina, enumerated by me on the 1  day of August, 1870.             [typed page]491
Post Office:  Concord                                              E. McDonald, Ass’t Marshal

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