Pike Township & LeRaysville, Bradford County PA 1870 Census
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1870 Census Records for  Bradford County PA 
1870 Pike Township Census
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Enumerated  July 25 thru August 10, 1870 by R. B. Howell, Ass't. Marshall
Transcribed for Tri Counties by Carlton Wolfe 2004
Formatted & Published by Joyce M. Tice 2006
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.
P# = Page Number H# = Household - F# = Family
Note ! - Caucasian unless otherwise noted
Post Offices in Pike Township  in 1870  -  Residents in Pike Township picked up their own mail at the Post Office in LeRaysville, Pike or Stevensville, and a few on the eastern boundary received mail at the Rushville Post Office in Susquehanna County.  Residents of LeRaysville, used the leRaysville Post Office.  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 the township in which your subject lived.  Households on this page received mail at the STEVENSVILLE  Post Office
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.
Pike 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
LeRaysville Borough 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
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
114 113   Amanda 73 F   housekeeper     NY            
    Rees Charles 18 M   farm laborer     PA            
115 114 Maxfield Peck 66 M   farmer 2,000 1,142 PA           1
      Sarah 56 F   housekeeper     NY            
    Kinney Hannah 89 F   at home     NY            
116 115 White  Allen  45 M   farmer 2,000 1,350 NY           1
      Mary 36 F   housekeeper     PA            
      Lucy 10 F   attend. school     PA       1    
      William 8 M   attend. school     PA       1    
      George 3 M   at home     PA            
      Emma 9m F   at home     PA     Sept.      
117 116 Huy Melcher 50 M   farmer   300 PA         1 1
      Elizabeth 47 F   housekeeper     PA         1  
      John 23 M   farm laborer     PA           1
      Matilda 16 F   at home     PA       1    
      Amanda 13 F   at home     PA       1    
      Emma 10 F   attend. school     PA       1    
      Charles 7 M   attend. school     PA       1    
      William 3 M   at home     PA            
118 117 Verry L. L. 37 M   cooper 2,400 1,143 PA           1
      Julia 23 F   housekeeper     PA            
      John 3 M   at home     PA            
    Estell Earnest 19 M   farm laborer     PA            
119 118 Ross William 53 M   farm laborer   300 PA           1
      Malinda 43 F   housekeeper     PA            
      George R. 23 M   farm laborer     PA           1
      Wallace 19 M   farm laborer     PA            
      Florence 17 F   at home     PA       1    
      Nancy 8 F   attend. school     PA       1    
      Lewis 6 M   attend. school     PA       1    
120 119 Paine Sheldon 72 M   farmer 5,000 1,000 CT           1
      Lorinda 61 F   housekeeper     MA            
120 120 Paine Philemon 28 M   farmer 2,000 875 PA           1
      Matilda 24 F   housekeeper     PA            
      Arthur 4 M   at home     PA            
      Lizzie 7m F   at home     PA     February      
    Nichols Willie 13 M   farm laborer     PA            
121 121 Keeler Eugene 48 M   farmer 5,000 3,032 PA           1
      Mary E. 21 F   housekeeper     PA            
    Briggs F. E. 20 F   dom. servant     PA            

Published on Tri-Counties Site on 7/23/2006
By Joyce M. Tice