Ohio County, Kentucky was formed in 1798 from Hardin County. The county seat is at Hartford. Unfortunately no census records exist for the parent county for the 1790 and 1800 counts. Apparently they were destroyed during the British attack on Washington in the War of 1812. The transcriptions which follow were made from microfilm copies of the extant censuses. Each census lists the name of the head of the household followed by statistical data showing the age categories of the various household members, including slaves and free colored. The statistical data was made more detailed in successive censuses making more columns necessary. These early censuses provide only a partial listing of the adult, white-male population. Adult, white-females and blacks of either sex are not listed, except in the small proportion of cases where they are the head of a household. Although slaves are shown by age groupings in the latter censuses, they are not shown by name and have been listed here simply as a total number in the second column from the right. Free colored are likewise shown as a total number in the right-most column in each census. Rowena Lawson 1984, paper, 42 pp.ISBN: 9780917890444 101-L9077
