Eight African Americans have been identified in the Census of 1830, Gratz, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The 1830 Census was the second in which Gratz was recognized as a town.
A section of a page from the Census of 1830 for Gratztown, Lykens Township (above), showing the households of Peter Crabb and Conrad Fry.
The interpretation of the original page, shown above was provided by Ancestry.com.
In the household of Conrad Fry, a free white male, there were a total of thirteen persons, eleven of who were classified as “free white” and two of whom were classified as “free colored.” Of the two who were “free colored,” one was a male under the age of ten and the other was a female under the age of ten. Nothing more is known about the two “free colored” persons.
In the household of Peter Crabb, a “free colored” male, who was between the ages of 36 and 54, there were a total of seven persons, six of whom, including Peter Crabb, were “free colored” and one of whom was a “free white” male,who was under the age of twenty. Other than Peter Crabb, who was between the ages of 36 and 54, there were two “free colored” males under the age of 10, one “free colored” male between the ages of 10 and 23, one “free colored” female between the ages of twenty-four and thirty-five, probably the wife of Peter Crabb, and one “free colored” female under the age of ten. Nothing more is known about the “free white” person under the age of twenty.
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