The 1810 census of Tennessee was also lost, except for Grainger and Rutherford counties, which have been indexed. This census is incomplete and most East Tennessee counties are missing. Following the second hyphen is a column detailing number of slaves in the household and a column detailing number of free blacks in the household. Heads of household and numbers of males and females are listed by county in the same order as they appear on the actual census, and each volume has its own alphabetical index. The numbers in each colum show the number of persons in the household by age groups.
Males are to the left of the hyphen and females to the right.
Sistler's index does not include age and sex breakdowns for blacks, either free or slave, though free black heads of household are followed by the code 0-0. The county abbreviation codes are listed on the following 1830 Tennessee counties list. The 1840 census also shows the name of head of household and the number of males and females in each age category. Categories are the same as in the 1830 index. To obtain copies of census records, please see our webpage on ordering census records by mail .