Friday's #genchat has me examining an 1860 Agricultural Schedule
I try to catch #genchat on Twitter when I can. This past Friday(Dec 30) was a #genchat night and the topic was non-population schedules. I haven't really worked with those a great deal so I went looking thru some of them today. I found my 3rd Great Grandfather Thomas Adcock in the 1860 Agricultural Schedule for Dekalb County Tennessee.It really does give you some idea of your ancestors position in the community and what life must have been like for them. As expected my Thomas didn't have much. Thomas Adcock's entry recorded: 3 improved acres, 30 unimproved acres, His farm value was listed as $300. The value of his farm tools and machinery was listed at $10. He didn't own any horses but had 1 milch cow and 3 other cows, 9 sheep and 9 pigs. The total value of his livestock was listed at $100. He did have 1000 bushels of Indian corn though and 12 lbs of wool. Other items were 2 bushels of peas or beans, 10 bushels of Irish Potatoes and 200 lbs of butter.Thomas was already poor before the Civil War.The information from the Federal Population census for the same year shows that he was 43 years old with his wife and 6 of their children still living at home. I hope they had some chickens. Thomas would enlist in the Confederate Army's 1st Infantry Battalion Tennessee Company C. He was captured and taken to Camp Morton Indiana. More information can be found in his Confederate Pension Application and at my webpage which lists his answers from his application and also some of the other applications from that area including his Widow's Confederate Pension Application.
I have listed the headings for the columns of the 1860 Agriculture census schedule below to give you some idea of what information was gathered. It is kind of hard to tell from the record itself so I had to get some of the headings by looking thru a few pages and finding the least blurred.
1860 Agriculture Census Column Headers
- Owner, Agent or Manager of Farm
- Acres Improved
- Acres Unimproved.
- Cash Value of Farm
- Value of farming implements & machinery
- Livestock: Horses
- Livestock: Asses & Mules
- Livestock: Milch Cows
- Livestock: Working Oxen
- Livestock: Other Cattle
- Livestock: Sheep
- Livestock: Swine
- Value of Livestock
- Wheat, Bushels of
- Rye, Bushels of
- Indian Corn, Bushels of
- Oats, Bushels of
- Rice, lbs of
- Tobacco, lbs of
- Ginned Cotton bales of 400 lbs
- Wool lbs of
- Peas & Beans, Bushels of
- Irish Potatoes, Bushels of
- Sweet Potatoes, Bushels of
- Barley, Bushels of
- Buckwheat, Bushels of
- Value of Orchard Produce $
- Wine, Gallons of
- Value of Produce of Market Goods
- Butter, lbs of
- Cheese lbs of
- Hay, Tons of
- Clover seed, Bushels of
- Grass Seed, Bushels of
- Hops lbs of
- Hemp, Dew Rotted Tons of
- Hemp, Water Rotted Tons of
- Other Prepared Hemp
- Flax, lbs of
- Flax seed, bushel of
- Silk Cocoon, lbs of
- Maple Sugar, lbs of
- Cane Sugar, hhds of 1000 lbs
- Molasses gallons & from what made
- Beeswax lbs of
- Honey, lbs of
- Value of Homemade Manufactures
- Value of Animals Slaughtered
