I've been intermittently transcribing a 1784 census document for San Augustin and NE Florida. It will eventually be published in a compilation of census documents that I'm preparing for late 18th century/early 19th century Spanish Louisiana and Florida. I wanted to mention it to the list because of its archaeological possibilities. For San Augustine the census provides the age, sex, family size of every individual plus origin plus occupation plus religion (there is even a "judio" from Russia!) plus details on the location and occupation of each house lot (one could reconstruct a map of houselots from the data given on each- ultimately all the houselots are pinpointed directly or indirectly with regard to a public building likely still to exist today or whose location is known- e.g. churches) plus information on the wealth of the occupants. There are more than 700 individuals listed for this very diverse community (most of the 13 colonies are represented plus Great Britain, France, Minorca, Corsica, Italy, Greece, Transylvania, Germany, etc.) in all sorts of mostly urban localities (from houses of prostitution to places to work iron). The census is the first act of the incoming Spanish administration for a community that was in the process of vanishing (yes, the document lists who left, was leaving or intending to leave). The original is part of the East Florida collection of the Library of Congress and has been in their hands, along with much else from this area, since the beginning of the century. The document is known in the literature, although I don't think it has been published as such. I should state that the text available in microfilm from the Library of Congress for use either at LC or in interlibrary loan that I have seen is VERY defective. The photographer only copied EVERY OTHER PAGE. Also the microfilm was poorly taken and is difficult to read. The original Ms. is actually in rather good condition and very easy to use. In brief, LC has a document of great potential archaeological interest which I doubt has been used by many (or any?). Since I don't know anyone working in this time period (British Florida in the 18th century), I thought I'd post this information. Anyone interested in learning more about it should contact me. ******************************************************** Lawrence H. Feldman Post Office Box 2493 Wheaton Maryland 20915-2493 301-933-2616 [log in to unmask] Indexer - Researcher - Writer ********************************************************