Bowman / Bauman in Pa 1790 Census
Just trying to clear my head and get a sense of the big picture.
It's amazing what you can find buried in the back of some closet under years
of dust ! Found a book I bought called "Heads of Families at the First Census
of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 - Pennsylvania" Originally printed
in 1908 by the the Government Printing Office and reprinted 1992 by the Genealogical Publishing Company. Thought I'd study Bowman and allied family clusters.
I may have muddied the waters when I added the spelling Bauman ; I'm so
used to seeing germanic names change I just automatically assumed. I've
found my Jacob in 1790 and at least by then it was Bowman (the only Jacob
family size that fits the known facts is "Jacob (of Chrn)" in Berks County ;
the other "Jacob" in Berks County may be him depending on when the last
daughter was born ; no others are even close) .
And Bowman was far and away the preferred spelling. In the 1790 census
there was 1 head of household spelled Bauchman , 11 spelled Baughman ,
4 spelled Bauman ( ! ) , 3 spelled Bawman , 6 spelled Boughman and 77 ( ! )
spelled Bowman.
I know we can't say what the names were of the counted , but for fun assuming
every one enumerated with a head of house of Bowman was a Bowman -
There were 127 males over 16
120 males under 16
and 237 females
for a total of 484 Bowmans in Pennsylvania
or 0.1% of the total population of 424,099.
Next step is to research allied families for proximity to the Bowmans.
Below is where all the Bowmans where :
(Not all of the formatting copied over (eg superscript) but the spellings and abreviations are per the original - David)
Males Males
Bowman over 16 under 16 Females County
Jacob324 Allegheny
John212 Bedford
Jacob144 Bedford
Jacob141 Bedford
Abm303 Berks-Colebrookdale Twp
Jacob224 Berks-Cumru
Chrisn117 Berks-Cumru
Jacob (of Chrn) 226 Berks-Cumru
Peter212 Berks-Cumru
Wendle116 Berks-Cumru
Chrisn,Jur125 Berks-Cumru
John104 Berks-Maiden Creek Twp.
Adam221 Berks-Maxatany Twp.
Peter133 Berks-Richmond Twp.
Geo201 Berks-Windor Twp.
Henry135 Bucks
Mary112 Dauphin-Remainder of County
John132 Dauphin-Remainder of County
Christian232 Dauphin-Remainder of County
Jacob134 Dauphin-Remainder of County
Jacob112 Dauphin-Remainder of County
Henry134 Dauphin-Remainder of County
George124 Dauphin-Remainder of County
Barbra313 Dauphin-Remainder of County
Christian112 Dauphin-Remainder of County
Phillip133 Fayette-German Twp.
Jacob203 Fayette-Menallen Twp.
John201 Fayette-Menallen Twp.
John245 Huntingdon
Abraham147 Lancaster-Bart Twp.
Daniel102 Lancaster-Bart Twp.
John111 Lancaster-Brecknock Twp.
Christ323 Lancaster-Cocalico Twp.
John623 Lancaster-Cocalico Twp.
Saml303 Lancaster-Cocalico Twp.
Danl302 Lancaster-Cocalico Twp.
John116 Lancaster-Conestogo Twp.
John103 Lancaster-Donegal Twp.
John214 Lancaster-Donegal Twp.
John133 Lancaster-Drumore
Henry112 Lancaster-Drumore
Peter423 Lancaster-Hempfield
Benjamin244 Lancaster-Lampeter
Henry112 Lancaster-Lampeter
Wendel316 Lancaster-Lampeter
Joseph113 Lancaster-Lampeter
(Widow)022 Lancaster-Maytown
Henry131 Lancaster-Sadsbury
Henry325 Lancaster-Strasburg
Jacob113 Luzrene
John116 Luzrene
Samuel203 Luzrene
Jacob134 Montgomery-"Remainder of county".
Jacob212 Montgomery-"Remainder of county".
Peter112 Montgomery-"Remainder of county".
Jacob132 Montgomery-"Remainder of county".
Barnet353 Northampton-Towanensink Twp.
Henry213 Northampton-Towanensink Twp.
Christian105 Northampton-Upper Mount Bethel Twp.
Christopher416 Northampton-Upper Mount Bethel Twp.
Thomas241 Northampton-Upper Mount Bethel Twp.
Christn224 Northumberland
James152 Northumberland
Jacob104 Philadelphia-Germantown
Jacob313 Philadelphia-Germantown
Charles101 Philadelphia-Southwark Town
Susannah003 Philadelphia City-Middle District.
(Widow)
John113 Washington
John112 Washington
Benjamin101 Washington
Robert101 Washington
Robert302 Washington
John102 York-Reading Twp.
Caty101 York-York Borough
Henry203 York
Henry254 York
John101 York