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Whole Number 144

NEW JERSEY CENSUS RECORDS


The earliest census records to survive for New Jersey are those for the year 1830. It is most unfortunate for the Sparks family history that the federal censuses for 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820 have been lost because, as can be seen from the number of Sparks households appearing on the New Jersey censuses for 1830 and 1840, a remarkably large number of Sparkses lived in that state at an early date. We published a record of all persons named Sparks (Sparkes and Spark) found on the 1850 census for New Jersey in the issue of the Quarterly for September 1982 (Whole No. 119, pp. 2434-2443).

The same information was collected by census takers in 1830 as was collected in 1840, with only the name of the head of each household being recorded. The head and all other members of the household were then simply enumerated in a series of age groups, with males in one column and females in the other. For further information regarding the interpretation of the data recorded, the reader is referred to page 3329 of the present issue of the Quarterly.

SPARKS HOUSEHOLDS APPEARING ON THE
1830 CENSUS OF NEW JERSEY

  Males   Females
  0
5
 5
10
10
15
15
20
20
30
30
40
40
50
50
60
60
70
70
80
80
90
90
100
+
100
||| 0
5
 5
10
10
15
15
20
20
30
30
40
40
50
50
60
60
70
70
80
80
90
90
100
+
100
Cumberland County
Fairfield Township
Joel Sparks (131) 1 2       1               |||           1       1      
 
Essex County
Union Township
Peter Sparks (36) 2 2 2 1   1               |||           1              
 
Gloucester County
Greenwich Township
John C. Sparks (116) 1       1                 |||     1   1                
Rob't N. Sparks (116) 2 1       1               |||   1   1 1 1              
Depford Township
Simon Sparks (89)   1   4     1             ||| 1 1 1 2     1            
Newtown Township
Rebecca Sparks (31)                           |||   2 2   1     1          
Waterford Township
William Sparks (15)           1               |||             1            
 
Salem County
Lower Penns Neck
Richard Sparks (269)   1   1       1           |||   1 1         1          
Peter Sparks (269) 1 2 1 1     1             ||| 2     1 2                
David Sparks (270)     2 1 1                 ||| 2     1 1                
Salem Town
Juliana Sparks (284)                           |||                   1      
Upper Nenns Neck
John S. Sparks 323 1 1       1               |||   1     1                
Joseph Sparks 323 1         1               ||| 1 2 1   1                
Andrew Sparks 323         1                 |||   2     1                
William Sparks 324 1     1     1             ||| 1 2 1       1            
John H. Sparks 326 3         1               |||   1         1            
Ebenezer Sparks 328 1 1   1   1               ||| 1   1   1 1              
John Sparks 332     1       1             |||     1     1              
Garrard Sparks 329  . 1 1 1   1     1         |||   1 1       2            
Robert Sparks 329 2 3 1     1               |||           1              
John Sparks 332             1   1         ||| 1 2 1   1                
William S Sparks 332 2 1       1               |||   1       1              
Upper Nenna Neck
Samuel Sparks         1                 ||| 1 1     1                
Lower Pilesgrove
David Sparks 342     1 2   1               ||| 2           1            
Upper Alloway Creek
John Sparks 374     1     1               |||         1                
Sam'l M. Sparks 374 2 1     1                 |||           1              
 
Somerset County
Warren Township
Thomas Sparks 175                   1       |||                   1      
Essex County
Newark City, S. Ward
Warren Sparks 223         1                 |||         1                
Lewis Sparks 233         1                 |||         1                
Union Township
John Sparks (313)         1                 |||       1                  
 
Gloucester County
Deptford Township
Simon Sparks Esq 73               1           |||         1                
Robert N. Sparks 80 1 1 1 1     1             |||         1   1            
Wm. C. Sparks 81   1     1 1               |||     1 1                  
Greenwich Township
John C. Sparks 88   1 1     1               ||| 1 1       1              
Josiah C. Sparks 89 1     2 1                 |||   1     1                
Robert C. Sparks 90 1       1                 |||         1 1              
Wollwich Township
John N. Sparks 125   1 1 1   1               |||         1   1            
Camden Township
Rebecca Sparks 160       1                   ||| 1   1     1              
Aaron Sparks 165   1 1       1             |||           1              
 
Salem County
Lower Penns Neck
David Sparks 158 1         1               ||| 1 1 2     1              
Richard Sparks 158 1   1   1     1           |||     1 1         1        
Sinnockson Sparks " 2   1           1         |||   1   1 1       1        
Mannington Township
David Sparks 169     1   1     1           |||     1 1       1          
Lower Pilesgrove
Thomas Sparks 186         2                 ||| 1     1 1                
**David Sparks 186         2                 |||         1                
Upper Penns Neck
Jarard Sparks 249   2         1       1     |||                          
Robert Sparks 249   1 2   1   1             |||   1 2   1 1              
John S. Sparks 249 2   1 2     1             ||| 1 1     1 1              
Joseph S Sparks 250   1 1       1             ||| 2 1   1   1              
William Sparks 250     1   1     1           |||       1                  
Andrew Sparks 250 2         1               |||   2       1              
Ebenezer Sparks 250   1 1 1     1             |||   1 1   1   1            

**Note: David Sparks of Salem County was shown as owning one slave.