1860 CENSUS, MARLBORO COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA Transcriber's notes: This is the 1860 federal census of the “free” inhabitants of the Marlboro District/County of South Carolina. Microfilm roll number M653-1223 was used in this transcription. It also includes Marion County, SC. Marlboro County is found on stamped pages 142 through 211 which also are handwritten pages 1 through 139. The 139 pages contain 5,541 names of which 5,402 are classed as W (white); 90 are classed as M (mulatto); and 49 are classed as B (black). The film is in good condition with very few pages being somewhat faint or with darkened edges. The handwriting is legible though distinguishing between “J” and “I” and between “M” and “W” was a recurring challenge. With regard to the “Color” column, the enumerator’s style leaves one to assume it is white unless otherwise noted, a sort of exceptions only manner of reporting. His tendency also was to make complete entries only in the several columns on the line for the first name shown in each household. The surname, for example, in most instances is only shown there. The enumerator throughout uses “So Ca” and “No Ca” as abbreviations for South Carolina and North Carolina, respectively. “Far” often is entered in the occupation column for farmer. We read the occupation entered on line 3, handwritten page 1 as “book maker” (an unlikely pursuit at that time and place!) but it likely is “boot maker.” Some words are spelled differently such as “Labourer” (like the British) for laborer; and some are spelled incorrectly such as “colege” for college, and “taylor” for tailor. Overall, despite these criticisms, enumerator James H. Bolton has left us with a valuable and useful record.