This page of the 1800 federal census for Morgan District, North Carolina, lists a James Fortenberry among households grouped by surname initial (E and F). His row shows a small household that appears to be one young boy, one man of adult age, and one adult woman, though the column headings are not on this scan and the tallies are uncertain. It is one of the earliest records in the collection placing a James Fortenberry in western North Carolina before the family’s move west.
Source files: 1800 Census Morgan, NC.jpg (stamped page numbers 601/607 [?] in the margin)
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Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation follow the original. [illegible] marks unreadable text, and [?] marks an uncertain reading. Records on the same pages that are not about the Fortenberry family are labeled.
1800 census, Morgan District, North Carolina (head-of-household names E–F)
Only heads of household are named in the 1800 census. The tally columns count free white males and females by age group, then other free persons and enslaved people. The column headings are not on this scan, so the tallies are given as read, from left to right, and should be checked against a full image of the page.
Heads of household listed (in page order)
Francis Ellis
James Ervin
James Ellis Jr. [?]
James Ellis Sr. [?]
William Ellis
William Earles
John Elms
Arthur Edwards
William Elliot
Edmund Earwood
Mary Earwood
Bartlett Eaves
Solomon Eaves
David Eaves
Buckner Eaves
Graves Eaves
William Edwards
Joshua Earles
Marvell [?] Elliot
David Edwards
Ransom Edgenton [?]
William Elliot
James Fortenberry: tallies read as 1 (first column, likely a male under 10), 1 (a middle male column, likely 26–45 [?]), and 1 (a female column [?]). [Exact column placement uncertain.]
John Flin
John Forrester
Wiley Foley
Richard Fowler