The Town of Wilmurt, Herkimer County, 1870 federal population census was transcribed from the original microfilm by Lisa Slaski. 

The 1870 census is composed of the following 20 columns with headers entitled:

column 1:       dwelling-houses numbered in the order of visitation
column 2:       families numbered in the order of visitation
column 3a-b:  the name of every person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June, 1870, was in this family.
column 4:       description: age on last birth-day. If under 1 year, give months in fractions, thus 2/12.
column 5:       description: sex - Male (M.), Female (F.)
column 6:       description: color: white (W.), black (B.), mulatto (M.), chinese (C.) or Indian (I.)
column 7:       profession, occupation or trade of each person, male or female.
column 8:       value of real estate owned:  value of Real Estate
column 9:       value of real estate owned:  value of Personal Estate
column 10:     place of birth, naming the state, territory of U.S. or country, if of foreign birth
column 11:     parentage: father of foreign birth
column 12:     parentage: mother of foreign birth
column 13:     if born within the year, state month (Jan., Feb., etc.)
column 14:     if married within the year, state month (Jan., Feb., etc.)
column 15:     attended school within the year
column 16:     education: cannot read
column 17:     education: cannot write
column 18:     whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic
column 19:     constitutional relations:  male citizen of U.S. of 21 years of age and upwards
column 20:     constitutional relations:  male citizen of U.S. of 21 years of age and upwards whose right to vote is denied or abridged, on other grounds than  rebellion or other crime.

The following 3 pages (page 491 thru 493)  are provided here exactly as transcribed to the best of my ability.  No attempt has been made to correct spellings, etc., (everything appears as it does on the original microfilm record).  Use the links below to scan each page from the census for this township:

Source: This electronic text was transcribed from original microfilm of the 1870 US census by Lisa Slaski. Due to the difficulties in transcribing old and stylized handwriting, the original census should be referred to.
Copyright © 1999 Lisa Slaski

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