From collection Penobscot Marine Museum Archives
Searsport census, William Putnam census taker
Abstract of the 1880 United States Census for Searsport, Maine, prepared by William Peleg Putnam. Putnam's abstract lists each family alphabetically by last name, together with the age of each individual. Pages are in reverse alphabetical order. At a later date, the volume was annotated with notes on whether an individual had died.