Wayne County quadrennial census lists for 1815, 1819 and 1823 have been provided to the Wayne County Genealogical Society. Please note: The names have been indexed as they were spelled on the original list. The following is an electronic index with a link to a scanned copy of the originial list. If you have an early ancestor in Wayne County, this lists all the MALES 21 years of age and older in the county as of these three years.
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The 1815 had 759 males 21 years of age and over. Only 362 names have survived in the townships of East Union, Lake, Mohican, Perry, Prairie, Sugar Creek and Wooster.
The 1819 had 1,845 males 21 years of age and over. The townships at that time were: Wooster, Prairie, Mohican, Lake, Wayne, Pike, Baughman, Salt Creek, Chippeway, Sugar Creek, Milton, Perry, Green, Jackson, Congress, Paint, Plain, East Union and Chester.
By 1823 there were approximately 2,572 males aged 21 years of age and over in the townships of Baughman, Canaan, Chester, Chippewa, Congress, East Union, Franklin, Green, Jackson, Lake, Milton, Mohican, Paint, Perry, Pike, Plain, Prairie, Ripley, Salt Creek, Sugar Creek, Washington, Wayne and Wooster.
Coordinator: Cheryl Brown Abernathy
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