The 1820 United States Census contains two age categories that overlap:

  • males of 16 years but under 18 years
  • males of 16 years but under 26 years

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  1. I’ve run across that same problem with Canadian census. It hasn’t helped to know if children were born in New Jersey or New York or Nova Scotia. Just to be consistent, I’ve used the youngest age.

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