Simpson County, Mississippi 1840 Federal Census Text File

This Census was transcribed by Larry Cooley (trsurhtr@airmail.net) and proofread by Anita Gohl
(gohlpost@netw.com) for the USGenWeb Census Project http://www.usgenweb.org/census.

Copyright (c) 1999 by Larry Cooley (trsurhtr@airmail.net).

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Thanks to S-K Publications for providing the census page photocopies from
which this transcription was made.  The complete original, handwritten
census of this county is available in book form (including a typed index)
from S-K Publications, PO Box 8173, Wichita KS 67208
(www.skpub.com/genie/census.html).
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    Census_Year 1840
    Microfilm   #M704-217
    State       Mississippi
    County      Simpson
    District
    Enumerator  William McCaskill
 
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ABOUT THIS CENSUS TRANSCRIPTION.

The enumerator on this census (Simpson County, Mississippi 1840) wrote a lot of his I's, J's,
L's and P's quite the same, making it rather difficult to distinguish one from the other -
especially if the name was not a commonly recognized one.

There were a few 'unreadable' spots on some of the pages - most likely where tape had at one
time been applied to either the actual census or to the microfilm - therefore making the
printed copy undecipherable.

The SK publication on this census (along with 1830 when it is returned by the proofreader) will
be donated to the public library at Harrisville, Mississippi.

Inaccurate computation of numbers occurred several times: written totals were used rather than
making corrections to addition errors.