It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the 1850 United States Agricultural Census record for Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) in Aurora, Erie County, New York - two images:
The first page:
The second page:
Samuel Vaux's information is on the 19th line on the right-hand page of the first image and the left-hand page of the second image.
The transcribed information:
The transcribed information:
* Name of Agent, Owner or Manager of Farm: Vaux Samuel
* Acres of land: 49 acres improved, 4 acres unimproved.
* Present cash value: $1166 of farm, $130 of farming implements and machinery.
* Livestock as of June 1, 1850: 1 horses, 3 milch cows, 2 ocen, 3 other cattle, 14 sheep, 2 swine, $232 value of all livestock.
* Produce during the year ending June 1: 10 bushels of wheat, 10 bushels of Indian corn, 40 bushels of oats, 12 bushels of peas and beans, 10 bushels of Irish potatoes, 10 bushels of barley, 200 lbs of butter, 40 tons of hay, value of orchard products $20. 250 pounds of butter, 35 tons of hay, 20 pounds of maple sugar, $38 value of animals slaughtered.
The source citation for this record is:
1850 United States Federal Census, Aurora, Erie County, New York, Samuel Vaux farm; imaged, "U.S., Selected Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1276/records/4599712 : accessed 22 February 2025); New York > Agriculture > 1850 > Erie > Aurora > image 7 of 8, line 19; Original data in Nonpopulation Census Schedules for New York, 1850-1880. Microfilm. New York State Library, Documents and Digital Collections, Albany. (NARA microfilm publication T1156, 49 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) was born 14 January 1816 in South Petherton, Somerset, England, the son of James and Mary (Palmer) Vaux. He died 9 October 1880 in Concordia, Cloud County, Kansas. He married Mary Ann Underhill (1814-1882) before 1839 in Aurora, Erie County, New York. They had six children born between 1839 and 1856.
Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux are my 3rd great-grandparents, who first settled in Aurora, Erie County, New York, moved to Dodge County, Wisconsin in 1854 or 1855, moved to Andrew County, Missouri by 1869, and then to the area around Concordia, Kansas, where they died in 1880 and 1882, respectively. I am descended from their daughter, Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931) who married Devier J. Lamphier Smith (1839-1894) in Dodge County, Wisconsin in 1861.
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