The images in this gallery have been categorized with something smugmug.com calls KEYWORDS. Keywords can help you find what you are looking for. You can click the keywords listed below the featured image to see other images grouped in the same categories. For example, if you are viewing an image with a particular surname or a certain county listed in its keywords, you can click on the keyword to see other images grouped with that surname or county. For tips on making the census images larger on your screen, see the viewing tips in the footnote below. The census date was 1 June 1850. 1850 was the first US federal census to record the names of every person in the household. Enumerators were presented with printed instructions, which account for a greater degree of accuracy compared with earlier censuses. No relationships were shown between members of a household.

1850 Questions: Name of each free person in a household, Age, Sex, Color (white, black or mulatto), Occupation of males over 15, Value of real estate owned, Whether person attended school or was married within the year, Whether the person could read or write if over 20, Whether deaf-mute, blind, insane, an idiot, a pauper or a convict

Slave schedules: Name of slave owner; Number of slaves owned; Number of slaves manumitted (freed); and under the slave owner's name, a line for each slave shows: age; color; sex; whether deaf-mute; blind; insane; idiotic; or a fugitive from the state. Names of slaves were not entered.

From 1850 to 1857, the population of non-Indians in Minnesota grows from 6077 to more than 150,000.