About the U. S. Census in Maine for the Year 1800 Sprague's Journal of Maine History Vol. 6 May, June, July 1918 No. 1 page 28-29 About the U. S. Census in Maine for the Year 1800 Dear Editor Sprague: I have been trying to snatch time to complete a very interesting phase of the U. S. census for 1800, as it pertains to Maine. Have copied the details at Washington and put into form for your magazine. The most remarkable thing in the whole 1800 census of the U. S. is, the fact that Geo. Halliburton, enumerator for towns on Penob- scot Bay and River, had a "tail-end" column put onto his schedules, headed "From Whence Emigrant Came." So, in 1800, he got first band answers from the pioneers as to where they came from when they settled Fox Islands (Vinalhaven), Deer Isle, Isle au Haut, Penobscot, Castine, Islesboro, Orland, Belfast, Prospect, Bucks- town (Bucksport), Ducktrap, Canaan, Northport, Frankfort, No. Harwick, Goose Pond Settlement, Colburnton, Sunkhaaze, Bangor, Eddington, Davistown, Quantabacook, Conduskeag, Hampden and Nos. 2 & 3 back of Hampden, Ohio, College Town and NO. 3, 1st Range. Now that I am at it, Mr. Editor, I think I will add a little more so that the public may have this much while awaiting my fuller article. I want to say that if we had had more George Hallibur- tons during the taking of the 1800 (2nd) census thousands of ques- tions that have gone unanswered would have easily been disposed of and millions of dollars worth of historic genealogical research for origin of pioneers in different parts of the Union would have been saved. In looking over Halliburton's schedules the thing which impresses the reader most is that nearly the whole of the Penobscot River territory was settled from Cape Cod, and the wonder is that anyone was left on the Cape. Old York and Cape Ann came in frequently, and then a list sifts in between these showing stragglers from everywhere. For instance: the extensive Grindle family of Brooksville (old Penobscot and Castine) spent money and research time for years to ascertain where the first Grindle immigrated from to the Penobscot. They surrendered the problem as a failure until I informed them, this summer, that he was from Dover, N. H.; a lace somewhat off the track in the general line of research for pioneers to this section. In the 1800 census George Halliburton (this the way he spelled his name) records himself as in Castine, from Nova Scotia, and the checking of his family shows himself and wife to have been between the ages of 26 and 45 years. With them were three males; one between 1 and 10 years old, one between 16 and 26 years old, and one between 26 and 45 years; plus two females; one between 16 and 26 and another between 26 and 45 years of age. Biographer A. W. H. Eaton, in his compilation of "Old Boston Families" says of the "Haliburton Family," (p. 66, Jan. 1917, N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg.) that George (George Andrew) Haliburton was b. at Horton, N. S., 1767; living in 1843, when he is called "of Maine" and practically ends his knowledge of this man here. I will leave him, or anyone interested to know more, the above clue to further history of this member of the Haliburton family who distinguished himself as being sagacious enough to see the need of, and to preserve for posterity, the recording of the origin of our Penobscot Bay and River families as denoted above.. Castine records will give further light, no doubt, of the final out- come of George and his family. B. LAKE NOYES. (c) 1998 Courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society ************************************************* * * * * NOTICE: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. * * * * The USGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. It is always best to consult the original material for verification.