{"id":51779,"date":"2019-07-29T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=51779"},"modified":"2020-03-05T19:34:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:34:03","slug":"there-were-only-31-states-when-they-got-married-on-23-july-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/there-were-only-31-states-when-they-got-married-on-23-july-1850.html","title":{"rendered":"There Were Only 31 States When They Got Married on 23 July 1850"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elbridge Gerry & Julia Clifford (Hanson) Sawyer<\/a> were married on 23 July 1850. Happy Anniversary.<\/p>\n

At that time the United States had only 31 states\u00a0and 4 organized territories: Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah.<\/p>\n

I found Elbridge and Julia in the 1850 census<\/a> on GenealogyBank<\/a>. Looking closely, we see that they were recorded by Charles Woodman, an Assistant Census Marshall, on Wednesday, 30 October 1850.<\/p>\n

Be sure to read the entire census page looking for clues.<\/p>\n

\"Source:<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, \u201cUnited States Census, 1850,\u201d database with images, GenealogyBank (https:\/\/genealogybank.com\/#), Elbridge G Sawyer, New Hampton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States. (Original index: United States Census, 1850, FamilySearch, 2014).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For example, what are the check marks in column 10 at the end of their lines on the census?<\/p>\n

Column 10 asks the census taker to \u201ctick\u201d or check that box if the person was \u201cMarried within the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is a terrific clue and piece of information.
\nThat box is checked for both of them because they were married on Tuesday, 23 July 1850.<\/p>\n

Examining the rest of their section on the page, we see that they were the 246th \u201cDwelling\u201d enumerated by the census taker. The census also tells us this home contained two \u201cFamilies\u201d \u2013 Elbridge\u2019s older brother & sister-in-law, Elisha Smith and Susanna Colby (Woodbury)<\/a>, as well as Elbridge & Julia.<\/p>\n

The census gives their ages, gender and occupations.
\nSo \u2013 Elisha was a farmer and Elbridge was a shoemaker.<\/p>\n

According to column 8 \u2013 \u201cValue of Real Estate Owned\u201d \u2013 Elisha did not own property, but Elbridge did. It was valued at $1,000. Looking at the census pages before and after their page, we see that the occupations of their neighbors were similar: farmers, carpenters, shoemakers, laborers and one physician. The value of the real estate ranged from $500 to $3,000.<\/p>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Examine every detail in the records you find about your ancestors. Look for clues that will help you discover more about their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp searches the 1850 U.S. Federal Census to find information about Elbridge and Julia Sawyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[6976,12,2719],"class_list":["post-51779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-census-records","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/photo-0729-2019-featured-graphic-1850-census-sawyers.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}