An enumerator's error in 1841 that has misled every subsequent account
The error
The enumerator ran two households together at the page break. The rate book and the tithe apportionment both show them separately.
Why it persisted
Because the census is treated as primary and rarely checked against anything. It is a document made by a person in a hurry.
What it changes
The population figures for the whole township by about four percent, and two of my own pieces, which are corrected.
