Lowndes County GaArchives Census.....Lowndes County 1850 - Partial Census No More To Come ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ward Meadows lmeadows@surfsouth.com July 23, 2004, 6:57 am Abstracted By: Linda Meadows 1850 - 1860 - 1870 Agricultural Census for Berry Wells Lowndes County, GA Agricultural and Manufacturing Census Reports Berry Wells, Esq., had a highly profitable plantation in the southwest corner of old Lowndes County, Georgia according to the information he filed in 1850, 1860, and 1870. All returns were made for Lowndes County, even though the formation of BerriŽen County in 1856 included his property. The following chart is for comparative purposes: 1850 1860 1870 ________________________________________________________________ Farm Number 8 1 8 Acres improved 100 400 400 Acres unimproved 2350 10200 9600 Cash value of farm 1500 11000 10000 Value of farm implements & machinery 600 312 500 Horses 6 3 4 Asses & mules 2 11 7 Milch cows 83 50 50 Working oxen 4 3 0 Other cattle 300 147 50 Sheep 56 300 75 Swine 150 280 100 Value of livestock 2128 4075 2350 Rye bushels - 50 - Indian corn bushels 800 2000 2000 Oats bushels 100 - 300 Rice pounds 100 20 - Ginned cotton 450 lb bales 15 41 12 Wool pounds 70 800 300 Peas & beans bushels 21 750 50 Sweet potatoes bushels 500 1600 300 Butter pounds 400 180 400 Cane sugar hogsheads of 1000 lbs - 1 - Molasses gallons - 160 100 Value of home manufactures 200 75 300 Value of animals slaughtered 200 730 - Estimation of all farm production - - 4340 Each page in these census ledgers was numbered, with each farm being assigned a number for that particular page. The entry for Berry Wells in 1850 was on Reel #105, enumerated 31 Aug 1850, by Adam Graham. The entry for Berry Wells in 1860 was on Reel #108, pages 5 & 6, enumerated 13-19 June 1860, by Isaac M de Lyon. The entry for Berry Wells in 1870 was on Reel #111, pages 43 & 44, enumerated 23 Aug 1870, by Charles O. Force. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/lowndes/census/1850/gcn15yr1850.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb