The tables below list some of the Decennial Census Bureau publications in which statistics for cities, towns, townships, minor civil divisions, and other similar geographies in the U.S. for 1790-1870 can be found. Page numbers are also provided for statistics for Brunswick, Maine.
A given decennial publication may include data for 2 or more decennial censuses. Inclusion of data from an earlier Census may signal a revision in the earlier data. When a publication is available in several editions, I have tried to link to just one of them.
Note: The town of Brunswick, Maine, seems to have been categorized by the Census Bureau over the years as a Town, a Minor Civil Division, and a County Subdivision. The village of Brunswick, Maine, seems to have been categorized as a Village and a Census Designated Place.
Identifiers
| Decennial Census year |
Title and publisher of publication | General page nums & for Brunswick |
Online versions | Bowdoin location & identifiers |
| pre-1790 (not decennial) |
A century of population growth from the first census of the United States to the twelfth, 1790-1900. GPO. | 149-169; Brunswick: 161 |
HathiTrust Internet Archive |
• Bowdoin Govt Doc C 3.2:P81 • Dubester: 2785 |
| 1790 (1st) | A century of population growth from the first census of the United States to the twelfth, 1790-1900. GPO. | 188-200, 276-298; Brunswick: 188 |
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| 1790 (1st) | Return of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States, according to "An act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States;" passed March the first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. "Philadelphia printed." | 5-end; Brunswick: 20 |
Census Bureau | • Bowdoin Govt Folio I 2.5:1/reprint No.1 • Dubester: 3 |
| Decennial Census year |
Title and publisher of publication | General page nums & for Brunswick |
Online versions | Bowdoin location & identifiers |
| 1800 (2nd) | Return of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States : according to an act providing for the second census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, passed February the twenty eighth, one thousand eight hundred. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. | 3-end; Brunswick: 13 |
Census Bureau HathiTrust Internet Archive |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 3.5:1/reprint No.2 • Dubester-Cook: 8.1 |
| Decennial Census year |
Title and publisher of publication | General page nums & for Brunswick |
Online versions | Bowdoin location & identifiers |
| 1810 (3rd) | Aggregate amount of each description of persons within the United States of America, and the territories thereof, agreeably to actual enumeration made according to law, in the year 1810. Norman Ross Pub. Vol. 3 of Ross ed. | 2-90; Brunswick: 2a |
HathiTrust | • Bowdoin Govt Folio I 4.5:1/reprint No.3 • Dubester: 10 |
| Decennial Census year |
Title and publisher of publication | General page nums & for Brunswick |
Online versions | Bowdoin location & identifiers |
| 1820 (4th) | Census for 1820. Gales & Seaton. | 19-end; Brunswick: 19 |
Census Bureau | • Bowdoin Govt Folio I 5.5:1/reprint No.5 • Dubester: 15 |
| Decennial Census year |
Title and publisher of publication | General page nums & for Brunswick |
Online versions | Bowdoin location & identifiers |
| 1830 (5th) | Fifth census, or, Enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, 1830 : to which is prefixed, a schedule of the whole number of persons within the several districts of the United States, taken according to the acts of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820. Printed by Duff Green. | Pagination is not consecutive! pp. 2-261;* Brunswick: 2-3 |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 6.5:1/reprint • Dubester: 19 |
* Pages 2-261 in section titled "Aggregate Amount of Each Description of Persons within the United States and their Territories According to the Census of 1830".
| Decennial Census year |
Title and publisher of publication | General page nums & for Brunswick |
Online versions | Bowdoin location & identifiers |
| 1840 (6th) | Sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States: as corrected at the Department of State, in 1840. Printed by Blair and Rives. | 4-477; Brunswick: 4-5 |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 7.5:1/reprint • Dubester: 24 |
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| 1840 (6th) | Compendium of the enumeration of the inhabitants and statistics of the United States : as obtained at the Department of State, from the returns of the sixth census, by counties and principal towns ... : to which is added an abstract of each preceding census. Printed by Thomas Allen. | 4-103; Brunswick: 4-7 |
Census Bureau HathiTrust |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 7.5:3/reprint • Dubester-Cook: 26.1 |
| Decennial Census year |
Title and publisher of publication | General page nums & for Brunswick |
Online versions | Bowdoin location & identifiers |
| 1850 (7th) | The seventh census of the United States, 1850 : embracing a statistical view of each of the states and territories, arranged by counties towns, etc., under the following divisions: 1. populations by counties-classification of ages and color-aggregates; 2. population by subdivisions of counties; 3. nativities of the populations; 4. births, marriages, deaths, dwellings, and families; 5. progress of the populations; 6. deaf and dumb, blind, insane, and idiotic; 7. colleges, academies, schools, &c; 8. attending school, during year, as returned by families; 9. adults in the state who cannot read and write; 10. professions, occupations, and trades of the male population; 11. agriculture-farms and implements, stock products, home manufactures, &c.; 12. newspapers and periodicals; 13. libraries other than private; 14. churches, church property, &c., with an introduction, embracing the aggregate tables for the United States compared with every previous census since 1790-schedules and laws of congress relating to the census in the same period--ratio tables of increase and decrease of cities and states, etc., by sex and ages, and color--table of population of every county, town, township, etc., in the United States, alphabetically arranged--together with some explanatory remarks and an appendix, embracing notes upon the tables of each of the states, etc. Robert Armstrong, Public Printer. | lii, xciii, ciii-cxxxvi, 4-995 (Table II); Brunswick: cvi, 4 |
Census Bureau HathiTrust |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 8.5:1/reprint • Serial 686 • Dubester: 30 |
| 1850 (7th) | Mortality statistics of the seventh census of the United States, 1850 [...]. Norman Ross Pub. 33 H.Ex.Doc. 98, Serial Set vol. 805. | 302-303 (selected cities) | Census Bureau HathiTrust |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 8.5:3/reprint • Serial 805 • Dubester: 32 |
| 1850 (7th) | Statistical view of the United States : embracing its territory, population--white, free colored, and slave--moral and social condition, industry, property, and revenue ; the detailed statistics of cities, towns and counties ; being a compendium of the seventh census to which are added the results of every previous census, beginning with 1790, in comparative tables, with explanatory and illustrative notes, based upon the schedules and other official sources of information / by J.D.B. DeBow. Norman Ross Pub. | 338-399; Brunswick: 344 |
Census Bureau HathiTrust |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 8.5:4/reprint • Dubester-Cook: 33.1 |
| 1850 (7th) | Ninth census -- Volume I. The statistics of the population of the United States, embracing the tables of race, nationality, sex, selected ages, and occupations, to which are added the statistics of school attendance and illiteracy, of schools, libraries, newspapers and periodicals, churches, pauperism and crime, and of areas, families, and dwellings, compiled from the original returns of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census. GPO. | 76-296; Brunswick: 159 |
Census Bureau HathiTrust |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 10.5:1/reprint • Serial 1473 • Dubester: 45 |
| Decennial Census year |
Title and publisher of publication | General page nums & for Brunswick |
Online versions | Bowdoin location & identifiers |
| 1860 (8th) | Population of the United States in 1860 : compiled from the original returns of the eighth census, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. GPO. | 8-588 (Table 3, "Population of Cities, Towns [...]"); 608-615; Brunswick: 201 |
Census Bureau HathiTrust |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 9.5:1/reprint • Dubester: 37 |
| 1860 (8th) | Statistics of the United States, (including mortality, property, &c.,) in 1860 : comp. from the original returns and being the final exhibit of the eighth census, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. GPO. | 522 (5 cities) | Census Bureau HathiTrust |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 9.5:4/reprint • Serial 1205 • Dubester: 40 |
| 1860 (8th) | Ninth census -- Volume I. The statistics of the population of the United States, embracing the tables of race, nationality, sex, selected ages, and occupations, to which are added the statistics of school attendance and illiteracy, of schools, libraries, newspapers and periodicals, churches, pauperism and crime, and of areas, families, and dwellings, compiled from the original returns of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census. GPO. | 76-296; Brunswick: 159 |
Census Bureau HathiTrust |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 10.5:1/reprint • Serial 1473 • Dubester: 45 |
| Decennial Census year |
Title and publisher of publication | General page nums & for Brunswick |
Online versions | Bowdoin location & identifiers |
| 1870 (9th) | Ninth census -- Volume I. The statistics of the population of the United States, embracing the tables of race, nationality, sex, selected ages, and occupations, to which are added the statistics of school attendance and illiteracy, of schools, libraries, newspapers and periodicals, churches, pauperism and crime, and of areas, families, and dwellings, compiled from the original returns of the ninth census (June 1, 1870) under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of Census. GPO. | 76-296, 640-656; Brunswick: 159, 645 |
Census Bureau HathiTrust |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 10.5:1/reprint • Serial 1473 • Dubester: 45 |
| 1870 (9th) | A compendium of the Ninth census (June 1, 1870). GPO. | 460-483, 543; Brunswick: 210 |
HathiTrust Internet Archive |
• Bowdoin Govt Folio I 10.5:4/reprint • Serial 1476 • Dubester: 57 |
