Bradford County PA
Chemung County NY
Tioga County PA
Canton Township, Alba Borough
Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice
1870 Census Records for  Bradford County PA 
1870 Alba Borough Census
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Enumerated June 1 thru 23, 1870 by Ward Warren, Ass't. Marshall
Transcribed for Tri Counties by Carlton Wolfe 2004
Formatted & Published by Joyce M. Tice 2006
P# = Page Number H# = Household - F# = Family
Note ! - Caucasian unless otherwise noted
Post Offices in Canton Township  in 1870  -  Residents in Canton Township picked up their mail at the Canton PO, East Canton PO, Alba PO.  There was no rural delivery until 1903. Be sure to read You Gotta Know the Territory for more information to help you understand this area and time. For individual pages the Post Office will be indicated, and it gives you information on the part of Canton Township in which your person of interest lived. Everyone in Alba Borough received mail at the Alba Post Office and all in Canton Borough picked up mail at the canton Post Office.
Joyce's Search Tip - January 2008 -
Do You Know that you can search just the Census Records on the site by using the three county level Census  buttons in the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the Current What's New Page

You can further limit your search by choosing the find all words option and entering a year or township name along with your surname. Remember that alternate spellings of surnames WILL affect your search results.


Census records are very often difficult to read because of handwriting, microfilm quality, and spelling issues. Our early census takers were not as well educated as we'd like them to have been, and even the people bearing the names often could not spell them with the same consistency we are accustomed to in this era. The census taker wrote what he believed he heard as well as he could. These have been transcribed for you to the very best or our abilities given the difficulties mentioned. Please be tolerant of what you would consider "mistakes." If you can recognize the names you are looking for, then it is a success. If not, then you may want to find a place where you can view the originals so that you can judge for yourselves. Excessive attention to outmoded spelling issues is the sign of a beginner in family research. Those of you who have been at this a while are well aware of the "spelling errors" in our early records and have learned to deal with them. If you have a comment that you think is important for a particular entry send it to me with the EXACT page URL and I will place your note at the bottom of the page.
Canton Township 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41
Alba Borough 01 02 03 04 05 06
H# F# SURNAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX COLOR/ RACE SEE NOTE 1 OCCUPATION VALUE REAL ESTATE VALUE PERSON. PROP. BORN FATHER FOREIGN BORN MOTHER FOREIGN BORN MONTH BORN OR MARRIED IN YEAR ATTEND SCHOOL IN YEAR CANNOT READ OR WRITE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE COMMENTS
    Crandal Hellen 9 F   at home     PA       1    
10 11 Reynolds William 57 M   farm laborer 1,000 200 CT           1
      Martha 22 F   at home     PA            
      Sally 54 F   housekeeper     NY            
      George 20 M   at home     PA            
      Edwin C. 18 M   at home     PA       1    
      D. M. 15 M   at home     PA       1    
11 12 Reynolds Samuel 32 M   painter 1,000   NY           1
      Maria 30 F   housekeeper     PA            
      Jennie 7 F   at home     PA       1    
      Samuel 80 M   retired farmer   2,000 CT           1
    Ayres Susan 70 F   at home   1,000 NJ            
12 13 Andress L. J. 54 M   farmer  6,000 5,000 NY           1
      Maria 50 F   housekeeper     PA            
13 14 Young Oscar 26 M   grocer 1,200 1,000 NY           1
      L. A. 31 F   housekeeper   200 PA            
      L. E. 1 F   at home     PA            
14 15 Reynolds J. S. 36 M   wagon maker 3,500 4,000 NY           1
      Ann 31 F   housekeeper     PA            
      Frankie 12 F   at home     PA       1    
15 16 Reynolds N. M. 43 M   hotel keeper 4,000 3,000 NY           1
      Fannie 40 F   housekeeper     NY            
      Eva E. 17 F   at home     PA       1    
    Case Eustace 21 M   laborer     PA           1
16 17 Spalding A. D. 52 M   farmer  10,000 2,000 NY           1
      Bathsheba 50 F   housekeeper     VT            
      J. A. 17 F   at home     PA       1    
      M. L. 15 F   at home     PA       1    
      Hattie  12 F   at home     PA       1    
    Decker Henry 21 M   farm laborer     NY           1
17 18 Andress W. G. 31 M   store clerk 600 200 PA           1
      G. N. 25 F   housekeeper     PA            
      L. B. 2 M   at home     PA            
18 19 Bilyien I. C. 56 M   brick mason   100 NJ 1         1
      Eliza 52 F   housekeeper     NY            
19 20 Dunbar A. T. 38 M   farmer  8,000 500 PA           1
      Isabel D. 38 F   housekeeper     PA            
      M. H. 8 M   at home     PA       1    
      Willard 5 M   at home     PA       1    
      Archie 4m M   at home     PA     January      

Published on Tri-Counties Site on 7/17/2006
By Joyce M. Tice