Treasure Chest Thursday - 1820 U.S. Census Record for Two Zacheus Hildreth Families In Townsend, Massachusetts

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1820 United States Census record for two Zacheus Hildreth households in Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

The two Hildreth households are the 8th and 9th entries on the image:

The extracted information for the Zacheus Hildreth (line 8) household (with my educated guess as to the names of the family members, assuming that they are all from the Zachaeus Hildreth (family):

*  Name of head of family:  Zacheus Hildreth 

*  Free white Males aged 10 to 15:  two (probably sons John born 1806 and Levi born 1808)

*  Free white Males aged 16 to 25:  one (probably son Joseph born 1800 or son Jonathan born 1803)

*  Free white Males aged 45 and over:  one (certainly Zacheus born 1754)

*  Free white Females aged 16 to 25: two (probably daughter Mary born 1801 and one unknown female)

*  Free white Females over age 45;  one ( certainly 2nd wife Abigail born 1769)

*  Number of persons engaged in agriculture:  two

The extracted information for the Zacheus Hildreth Jr. (line 9) household (with my educated guess as to the names of the family members, assuming that they are all from the Zachaeus Hildreth Jr. (family):

*  Name of head of family:  Zacheus Hildreth j'r

*  Free white Males under age 10:  two (probably sons Aaron born 1811 and James born 1817)

*  Free white Males aged 26 to 45:  one (certainly Zacheus Hildreth born 1783)

*  Free white Females under age 10:  one (probably daughter Clarissa born 1820)

*  Free white Females 26ed 26 to 45;  one ( certainly wife Hannah born 1789)

*  Number of persons engaged in agriculture:  one

The source citation for the Zacheus Hildreth Jr. entry (census date 1 June 1820) is:

 1820 United States Federal Census, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Townsend, Line 9, Zacheus Hildreth Jr. household; imaged, "1820 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7734/records/632440 : accessed 7 July 2021); Massachusetts > Middlesex > Townsend, page 569 (penned) image 4 of 7; original record on National Archives Microfilm M33, Roll 51.

Note that this census record is listed by first letter of the surnames.  It is possible that Zacheus and Zacheus Jr. resided next to each other. Note also that the men were formerly known as "Zachariah" in birth, marriage, death, land and probate records.

Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) (in line 8)  is my 4th great-grandfather, who married (1) Elizabth Keyes (1759-1793) in 1777, and had nine children.  He married (2) Abigail Hart (1769-1846) in 1794 and had eight children.  Zachariah Hildreth Jr. (1783-1857) (in line 9) is my 3rd great-grandfather, who married Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810, and they had nine children, including my 2nd great-grandfather Edward Hildreth (1831-1899). 

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