DELAWARE

CENSUS REPORTS

UPDATED NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Delaware is tiny, but it was the first state in the Union. Delaware was in a state of flux until the Mason-Dixon line established its boundaries, as well as those of Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1763.

Being the first established state, in 1787, it has had it's own Census reports right from the start in 1790. There are only three counties in the state, so it is fairly easy to find folks here.

DELAWARE 1790-1800-1810 CENSUS

There were no Putnams nor Putmans listed in these three census reports.

DELAWARE 1820 CENSUS

RICHARD PUTNAM Pencaster Hundred, New Castle County

Not much help here, as there are no males listed, just some gals. 00000000 01100101. She is over 45, very confusing listing, but wait till 1830.

DELAWARE 1830 CENSUS

RICHARD PUTNAM Pencaster Hundred, New Castle County

This is worse. His name is listed, but there are no figures for folks at all. I guess he was a bootlegger who simply went into hiding when the census taker came around. The next three families have no info either. No clues at all.

DELAWARE 1840 CENSUS

There were no Putnams nor Putmans listed.

DELAWARE 1850 CENSUS

JAMES PUTNAM 3rd District Wilmington, New Castle County

He is 56 Ireland, a laborer living in a rooming house.

DELAWARE 1860 CENSUS

OWEN (ORLANDO) PUTNAM Little Creek, Kent County

He is 29 NY, and a public school teacher His wife listed as Jane is really Judith Nixon Harris 28 NJ and her mom, Ruth Harris 56 NJ, is with them. He is actually Orlando Monroe Putnam a son of Calvin Putnam (1851) and his second wife Ann Clark from Cortland County New York. He was born there in 1831. He was at home in 1840, with his brother Calvin in Ocean County New Jersey single in 1850. He married Judith around 1858-59 in New Jersey. They are back in Somerset County New Jersey in 1870 and 1880. Orlando will die there July 1, 1883. Judith will be around in 1900 though. She will die January 29, 1910.

JAMES PUTNAM Pencaster, New Castle County

He is 60 DE and a single black man. I guess they didn't count blacks back when or he would have been listed in past years. I wonder if the Richard way back when was black or not, maybe same family. I have no idea, but this guy has been here all his life.

DELAWARE 1870 CENSUS

GEORGIA & ANDERSON PUTMAN Mispillion Hundred, Kent County

She is 8 DE, he is 4 DE. They live with Mark and Lydia Scotto, both in their late 50s from DE.

JOSEPH B. (BILLINGS) PUTNAM Wilmington, New Castle County

He is a blacksmith 52 MA, Sarah Hayward Bickum his wife is 46 MA and Sarah Eliza 24 MA. He is number 2401, a son of Joseph Putnam (1069) and Elizabeth Danforth of Newburyport, Massachusetts. They were in Wilmington, Massachusetts in 1850 and 1860, and will return there shortly. Have no idea what they are doing here, maybe just wanted to visit another Wilmington someplace.

DELAWARE 1880 CENSUS

There were no Putnams or Putmans indexed, but there were these folks who probably are.

CHARLES B. BUTMAN Wilmington, New Castle County

He is a ‘medicine compounder’ 50 MA MA MA and widowed. His daughter Elmira is 19 DE MA DE. He looks to be a son of Charles Fiske Putnam and Sarah Sage of Salem, Mass. He was home in 1850 and missing in 1860, about when this guy had his first child here in Delaware.

DELAWARE 1900CENSUS

There were no Putnams, Putmans or any kinfolk indexed.

DELAWARE 1910 CENSUS

RAYMOND L. (LESTER) PUTNAM New Castle, New Castle County

He is 37 NJ NJ NJ, Mary Louise Hubbs 32 NJ, Mary E. 9 NJ, Martha L. 6 NJ, Sarah L. 4 NJ and Naomi 9/12 NJ. He is a son of Benjamin Putnam and Mary Mannering of Newark, New Jersey. He and Mary were in Camden County, New Jersey in 1900 and will be in Gloucester County, New Jersey by 1920. New England Putnam line.

DELAWARE 1920 CENSUS

TRAVERS D. PUTMAN Middletown, New Castle County

He is 31 AL KY KY, Emma 24 VA NY VA, and Travers Junior 4 5/12 VA. He is a son of Robert E. Lee Putnam of Bell County, Kentucky, and was home there in 1900. Folks must have made a brief stay in Alabama in the 1880s. Travers was in the Army in Chesapeake, Virginia in 1910. The son Travers will be back with his grandmother in Kentucky in 1930. This line came out of Sutton Massachusetts in the 1700s and Joseph Washington Putnam came to Louisville, Kentucky and the family stayed in central Kentucky to this day.

DELAWARE 1930 CENSUS

There are no Putnams or Putmans indexed in Delaware in 1930.