Spanish Baton Rouge Census of 1786
File prepared by Sherry Sanford
Louisiana Genealogical Register, June 1983
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Spanish Baton Rouge Census of 1786

Louisiana History, Vo. XXIV, No 1 ( Winter 1983), pp. 70-84, contains a paper
by Albert Tate, Jr., "Spanish Census of the Baton Rouge District for 1786." 
In addition to containing the complete census, which lists the heads of
households and then by numbers the age and gender composition of each
household, the paper includes an appendix compiling family information from
contemporaneous church and Spanish civil records.

The heads of households listed are:  
Hanry Alexandre 
Jacques Burch 
Tomas Curtin (Thomas Courtain) 
Guillaume Dunbar 
Jean (John) Fridge 
Jaques (James) Hillin 
Jeremiah Kelsay 
Guillaume Marshall 
Jacob Nash 
Veuve (Widow) O'brien 
Francois Pousset 
George Proffitt 
G. (Garrett, Jr.) Rapelje 
David Ross 
Nicholas Schallion (Scallan) 
Benjamin Smith 
Samuel Steir (Steer) 
David William(s)  
There is included an additional annotation on the Russ family, children of
Ezechias who had come to British West Florida in 1772, who were living in the
vicinity although not listed on the census.

A list of the names of the Spanish census of Baton Rouge of 1782 has been
previously published in The Register, Vol. VIII No. 4 (December 1961), p. 49