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1840 Census 1840 United States census of the Township of Lexington, St. Clair County, State of Michigan, including all that territory which later became Sanilac and Huron Counties. Males 236. Females 177. 188 were under 15 years of age. Two families were engaged in manufacturing (no doubt operating a saw mill) and all others were engaged in agriculture. The term agriculture covered a lot of ground, cutting the trees and clearing the ground to growing a few acres of grain and potatoes. Also turning the trees which they cut into salable products such as tan bark, cedar posts and split shingles. There was no person over the age of 70. There were three schools and 45 recorded scholars. The names such as Hyde, Sheldon, Cummings, Simmons, Hollister, Stephens, Burtch, Huckins, Cooper, Galbraith and Simons contributed to much of our early history. Descendants of many of those early settlers still live in the county. This census was dated September 14, 1840 and was the first ever taken of this territory. |
These are in no particular order
|
Head of Household |
# in family |
| Peter H. Whiting |
9 |
| Lewis Facer |
12 |
| Peter De Groat |
3 |
| Stephen De Groat |
3 |
| Selden Champion |
3 |
| Hannibal Hollister | 6 |
| Ephriam Clayton | 5 |
| William Burtch | 8 |
| Abram Hogan | 10 |
| Charles Anderson | 6 |
| Webster Stephens | 9 |
| John Shill | 4 |
| Reuben Simmons | 10 |
| Edmund Smith | 6 |
| Miles Huckins | 8 |
| Thomas Huckins | 7 |
| James Sheldon | 7 |
| Eben Brown | 4 |
| Hiram Harney | 9 |
| Lyman Ayres | 7 |
| John Hyde | 10 |
| Elazar Smith | 3 |
| Esaac Ingham | 3 |
| Joseph Burlingham | 4 |
| John Mattison | 4 |
| Harry Cooper | 8 |
| John Smith | 12 |
| Leander Curtis | 6 |
| Samuel W. Monroe | 10 |
| Gaylord Cummings | 5 |
| Allen Stephens | 5 |
| Johnathan Shifer | 7 |
| David Shill | 5 |
| William Elsworth | 9 |
| Esaac Lemon | 8 |
| John Galbraith | 7 |
| Robert McClure | 7 |
| John Ryan | 6 |
| Ferrand Leonard | 4 |
| William Smith | 9 |
| Nathan Chase | 5 |
| Nelson Fox | 7 |
| Peter Dafoe | 6 |
| Nelson Potter | 6 |
| William Allen | 2 |
| Eber Lewis | 5 |
| Ethan Burtch | 10 |
| Alexander McHugh | 5 |
| Lewis Chadwick | 7 |
| T.B. Robin | 3 |
| James Merchant | 8 |
| Jacob Raynor | 3 |
| Thomas Hall | 7 |
| Joseph Pettis | 9 |
| Elisha Dowd | 3 |
| Abijah Butler | 7 |
| Chauncy Dowd | 7 |
| Calvin Dowd | 5 |
| Jarvis Simons | 7 |
| S. Thory | 3 |
| L.A. Whitford | 9 |
| A.W. Comstock | 6 |
| John Allen | 7 |
| Theodore Luce | 7 |
| Moses Thompson | 1 |