Finding aid for the Cuyahoga Valley Demographic Survey Records


Repository: Western Reserve Historical Society
Creator: Cuyahoga Valley Demographic Survey
Title: Cuyahoga Valley Demographic Survey Records
Dates: 1979
Extent: 2.10 linear feet (5 containers)
Abstract: The Cuyahoga Valley Demographic Survey was a demographic survey of residents and their livestock in eleven Summit County, Ohio, townships between 1800 and 1835. Data collected by N'omi Greber in 1979, from census, land, marriage, probate, and tax records, was used as historical background for an archeological dig on the Hale Farm in Bath, Ohio. The collection consists of data, index cards, coding forms, printouts, T-test data rolls, and master files for the project administration.
MS Number MS 4137
Location: closed stacks
Language: The records are in English

History of the Cuyahoga Valley Demographic Survey

The Cuyahoga Valley Demographic Survey was the result of a study funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in which Dr. David Brose of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History was the principal investigator and the Western Reserve Historical Society was the sponsoring agency. The primary focus of the project was an archaeological dig on the Hale Farm in Bath, Ohio, for which the demographic data provided historical background information. The survey, conducted by graduate student N'omi Greber, included individuals identified as residents of nine Summit County townships and their livestock between 1800 and 1835. Sources for the survey included the United States Census, land records, marriage records, probate court records, and tax records. This data was assembled on index cards, transferred without names to magnetic tapes and run through the Case Western Reserve University computer. The printout sheets, often assembled by township, are the resulting data.


Scope and Content

The Cuyahoga Valley Demographic Survey Records, 1979, consist primarily of data, index cards, coding forms, printouts, T-Test data rolls, and master files for the project administration.

The material in this collection pertains primarily to the census data, land transactions, marriages, property taxes, and livestock owned by residents of nine Summit County townships during the first half of the nineteenth century.


Statement of Arrangement

The collection is arranged by document type and then by subject.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

Bath Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Boston Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Copley Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Domestic animals -- Ohio -- Summit County.
Hudson Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Northampton Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Norwich Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Portage Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Richfield Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Richland Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Stow Township (Ohio) -- Population.
Summit County (Ohio) -- Population.
Tallmadge Township (Ohio) -- Population.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4137 Cuyahoga Valley Demographic Survey Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

Dr. David Brose, 1983.

Processing Information

Processed by Bari Oyler Stith in 1987.

Detailed Description of The Collection

Cuyahoga Valley Demographic Survey Records 1979

Box Folder
1 1 Data, census route 1820
1 1 Data, church data 1800-1830
1 1 Data, drafts and acreage, Connecticut Land Company ca. 1795
1 1 Data, land sales, pre-purchased 1805-1838
1 1 Data, land sales, census 1820
1 1 Data, land sellers, A-H 1800-1835
1 1 Data, land transactions, census 1830
1 2 Data, leases and mortgages 1820-1830
1 2 Data, livestock, for people not included in the census 1816-1835
1 3 Data, livestock, frequency distributions, the number of people owning cattle, for everyone on the tax lists for all townships 1816-1835
1 4 Data, livestock, intra-township T-tests 1816-1835
1 5 Data, marriage records, Portage County 1800-1835
1 5 Data marriages in Bath, Richland, and Copley Townships 1818-1835
1 5 Data, marriages and consents in Hudson and Boston Townships 1816-1833
1 5 Data, property tax records 1809
1 5 Data, property tax records 1820
1 5 Data, property tax records 1835
1 5 Data, Western Reserve University alumni records 1826-1854
1 6-12 Name index, A-Z 1979
1 13 Name index, marriage analysis 1818-1835
1 14 Livestock index, cattle 1816-1835
1 15 Livestock index, horses 1816-1835
1 16-18 Coding forms, A-Z 1979
Box Folder
2 19 Printouts, census data, all townships 1820 1830
2 20 Printouts, census data, residents, Bath and Boston Townships 1820 1830
2 21 Printouts, census data, residents, Copley and Hudson Townships 1820 1830
2 22 Printouts, census data, residents, Norwich and Portage Townships 1820 1830
Box Folder
3 23 Printouts, census data, residents, Richfield and Stow Townships 1820 1830
3 24 Printouts, census data, residents, Tallmadge Township 1820 1830
3 25 Printouts, census data, residents, Bath Boston and Copley Townships 1830
3 26 Printouts, census data, residents, Hudson, Northampton and Portage Townships 1830
3 27 Printouts, census data, residents, Richfield, Stow and Tallmadge Townships 1830
Box Folder
4 28 Printouts, census data, residents, Bath, Boston and Copley Townships 1830
4 29 Printouts, census data, residents, Hudson, Northampton and Portage Townships 1830
4 30 Printouts, census data, residents, Richfield, Stow and Tallmadge Townships 1830
4 31 Printouts, marriage data 1820 1830
4 31 Printouts, population data 1820 1830
Box Folder
5 32-35 T-test data, livestock 1816-1835
5 35 Master files for project administration including instructions for students, census case number 1979