Federal Supplementary Schedules 1850-1880

Federal census takers gathered information on mortality, industry, social statistics, and agriculture in South Carolina the Archives has copies of extant supplementary schedules on these topics for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. The enumerators also compiled data about slaves and slave owners in 1850 and 1860.

Mortality Schedules 1850-1880
These records are arranged by county and give information about people who died during the twelve months ending on 1 June of the census year. Published indexes are available for the 1850 and 1860 schedules. Once you locate an individual on these records you will find the following information: name, age, sex, color, married or widowed, place of birth, month of death, occupation, and cause of death. In addition, the 1850 and 1860 schedules list the names and marital status of slaves who appear in these records.

Industrial Schedules 1850-1880
These records are arranged by county and give information about industry and manufacturing. There are no indexes available for the industrial schedules. Once you have located an individual or business on these records, you will find the following information: capital invested in business, raw materials used, kind of motive power, types of labor used, and value and quantity of annual production.

Social Statistics Schedules 1850-1880
These records are arranged by county and give information about valuation, public debt, taxation, pauperism, crime, libraries, wages, newspapers, periodicals, colleges, academies, schools, religion, churches, and defective, dependent, and delinquent classes. There are no indexes available.

Agricultural Schedules 1850-1880
These records are arranged by county. There are no indexes available. Once you have located a farm owner or operator on these records, you will find information about types and values of crops and livestock, annual production, and amounts and types of land used.

Slave Schedules 1850 and 1860
These schedules are arranged by county and then by slave owner's name. Slaves enumerated on these schedules are not listed by name. Once you have located a slave owner on these records, you will find the following categories: name of slave owner; total number of slaves; age, sex, and color of each slave; fugitive from the state; number manumitted; deaf and dumb; blind, insane, or idiotic; and, on the 1860 schedule only, the number of slave houses. Sometimes these schedules give plantation names, particularly when an individual owned more than one plantation.