Treasure Chest Thursday - 1820 U.S. Census Record for the Nathan McNew Household in Vansville, Prince Georges County, Maryland

 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 the Nathan McNew (one of my wife's 3rd great-grandfathers) household in Vansville, Prince Georges County, Maryland.

The Nathan McNew household is the 5th person on the image:

The extracted information for the Nathan McNew household (with my educated guess as to the names of the family members, assuming that they are all from the Nathan McNew family):

*  Name of head of family:  Nathan McNew

*  Free white Males under age 10:   two (probably son George born  1820 and one other child)

*  Free white Males aged 10 to 15:  two (probably sons Thomas born 1807 and Charles born 1809)

*  Free white Males aged 16 to 25:  one (probably son Samuel born 1802 or Jeremiah born 1804)

*  Males aged 45 and over:  one (certainly Nathan born 1771)

*  Free white Females under age 10:  two (probably daughter Rachel and one other child) 

*  Free white Females aged 26-44;  one ( certainly wife Jane born 1775)

*  Slave males under age 14:  one

*  Slave males aged 14 to 25:  one

*  Slave males aged 26 to 44:  one

*  Slave females under age 14:  one

*  Slave females aged 26 to 44:  one 

*  Number of persons engaged in agriculture:  seven

*  Free white persons under age 16:  six

*  Free white persons over 25:  two

*  Total free white persons:  nine

*  Total slaves:  five

*  Total all persons:  14

There are seven living children in the Nathan and Jane (Prather) McNew family in 1820. Prhaps one male was enumerated as a girl.

The source citation for this entry (census date 1 June 1820) is:

 1820 United States Federal Census, Prince George's County, Maryland population schedule, Vansville, Line 5, Nathan McNew household; imaged, "1820 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7734/images/4433410_00162 : accessed 13 January 2026); Maryland > Prince George > Vansville, page 180A (penned) image 1 of 7; original record on National Archives Microfilm M33.

Nathan McNew (1771-1834) is my wife Linda's 3rd great-grandfather. She is descended from Nathan and his first wife Mary --?-- (1775-1806) through  Jeremiah McNew (1804-????) who married Frances Alethia Pickrell (1810-1845) in 1829.

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