United States Census Manufacturing Schedules

Availability
The information will be found as annotations on the regular census schedules found in National Archives microfilm publication M252, Third Census of the United States, 1810 (71 rolls).

Some regional archives of the National Archives contain microfilm copies for the schedules of the specific states in their region.

The FamilySearch Library has very few copies, but it does have the following:         1820 Jackson County, Tennessee          1850-1880 Arkansas          1850-1880 Pennsylvania

1810 - Most have been lost. Those left are bound with the population schedules.

Most of the schedules for later years have been destroyed, but some still exist.

Historical Background

 * Nonpopulation Census Records

Content
The quantity and quality of data in manufacturing schedules varies by census year.

1820 and 1850-1880:

1820, 1850, and 1860 reported:


 * name of the manufacturer
 * type of business or product
 * amount of capital invested
 * quantities, kinds, and value of raw materials used
 * quantities, kinds, and value of product produced annually
 * kind of power or machinery used
 * number of men and women employed
 * average monthly cost of male and female labor.

1860, 1870 referred to as "Industrial Schedules"

1870 - amount of detail increased.

1880 - supplemental schedules were also used for specific industries, such as for boot and shoe-making, lumber and saw mills, flour and grist mills.

Exclusions--Those manufacturing operations that produced less than $500 worth of goods.

National Archives

 * Records of the 1820 Census of Manufactures. M279

Value
It shows "sideline" businesses. Example - a man could be shown as "farmer" in population schedule and "tanner" in the manufacturing schedule.

Non-residents were enumerated - not limited to those living in particular township or county, thereby opening the possibility to additional connections.

Indexes

 * Indexes to Manufacturers' Census of 1820: An Edited Printing of the Original Indexes and Information (Reprint, Knightstown, Ind.:  Bookmark, n.d.)