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The Town & the City: Lowell Before The Civil War

Lowell in the 1850 Census

The 1850 Census

The link below accesses the  pages of census data from the city of Lowell excluding Ward 5 in 1850 -

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch, Massachusetts > Middlesex > Lowell > image 1 of 644; citing NARA microfilm publication M432, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

The link below accesses a filtered search of the FamilySearch database of the 1850 census using the search criteria of "Lowell, MA" and "1850" (data from Ward 5 is included) -

https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.anyPlace=Lowell%2C%20MA&q.anyPlace.exact=on&f.collectionId=1401638

The link below accesses the  pages of census data from the city of Lowell's Ward 5 in 1850 -

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LNH-GKB?i=419&cc=1401638&cat=744484