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I have extracted Vandegrift/Vandergrift, (and various spellings of the name) for many years and am in the process of preserving the information on a CD.   Additional extracts are continually being added.  There are 1,034 pages on the CD.  The format is in Word Perfect Suite 8.  The census extracts are very valuable to a genealogist.  It  is available on a CD for $25.00, postage prepaid.  Order by providing information  directly to the above address.

The following are the original census schedules for 1790. Schedules for some counties are missing. No schedules are known to exist for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia. Apparently, they were destroyed during the British attack on Washington during the War of 1812. The States are: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. The counties which are accounted for in Pennsylvania are: Allegheny, Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Huntington, Lancaster, Luzerne, Mifflin, Montgomery, Northampton, Northumberland, Philadelphia, Washington, Westmoreland, and York. The census does not list individuals by name except for the head of the family.

The index is an aid to locate census references for individuals who are extracted from Soundex records. There are 10,179 names listed in the index. All various spellings of the surname are omitted. It is a given name index and tells approximate year and State of birth, Census year and place of residence. Married women with a husband are identified with an asterisk (*). This is a very helpful tool to locate families in the census.

1790-1920 Locations, 22 pp

This is a listing of States and Counties and census year where various spellings of Vandegrift families were located. It provides the year the county was formed, census year and number of families residing in the county. For example, 1850(2) indicates that two families were living in that county in 1850.

The 1800 Federal Census included: The name of the head of the family; address; number of free white males and females; persons under 10 years of age; persons 10-16 years of age; persons 16-26 years of age; persons 26-45 years of age; persons 45 years and older, all other persons and number of slaves.

The 1810 Federal Census included: Name of head of family; address; number of free white males and females; breakdown of ages as follows: Under 10 years, 10-16 years, 16-26 years, 45 and over, all other free persons except Indians who were not taxed, and number of slaves.

The 1820 Federal Census included: Name of head of family; address; number of free white males and females under 10 years of age, 10 years and under 16 years; 16 years and under 26 years; 26 years and under 45 years; 45 years and upward; number of free white males between 16 years and 18 years; foreigners not naturalized; male and female slaves and free colored persons; number of persons (including slaves) engaged in agriculture, commerce and manufacturing.

The 1830 Federal Census included Free White Males and Females with the following age breakdown: Under 5 years; 5-10 years; 10-15 years; 15-20 years; 20-30 years; 30-40 years; 40-50 years; etc.

The 1840 Federal Census has the same age breakdown as the 1830 Census.

The 1850 Federal Census provides a listing of all names living in the household. It provides the location, names of individuals, their ages, sex, race, occupation and State of birth.

The 1860 Federal Census is not all inclusive because it has not all been indexed. States were completed which were indexed at time of extraction. There are extractions for the following twenty states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The extractions lists location, names of person living in the home, ages, sex, race, occupation, and State of birth.

The 1880 Soundex is a partial index of the Federal Census. It lists only the families that have children ten years of age and younger who are residing in the home. It has been copied from the census, some sheets being faded and difficult to read and therefore may have errors or outright omissions. Many of the cards in the Soundex are faded and virtually impossible to be certain of complete accuracy. The information provided is the location, name of each person, sex, age, relationship to head of the household and State of birth.

The 1900 Federal Census is an all name index showing location, names of each person in the home, race, month and year of birth, age and State of birth.

The 1910 Federal Census is an all name index showing location, names of each person in the home, race, relationship to head of household, age at time of census and State of birth. However, many of the States were not indexed and, therefore, there are many families not included in the 1910 Soundex (Index).

The 1920 Federal Census is an all name index showing location, names of each person living in the family, race, relationship to the head of family, age and State of birth.

This is an index for the web site which shows the ten generations of the Descendants of Anthonius Van der Grift as located at:

http://members.tripod.com/vandergrift/vander.htm.  

It is a helpful tool.  Index for the information on the web as of April 23, 2001.

Bible Record (perhaps, of Green Berry Nixon Vandegrift); Delaware Births, 1861-1913; Pike County, Ohio Birth Records, 1867-1880; West Virginia Index to Births, Harrison County, 1853-1933

History includes the first Van der Grift families who came to America in 1644. The Vandegrift family is of Holland descent, their progenitor being Jacob Lendertsen Van der Grift with his brother Paulus Lenertsen Van der Grift. They settled in New Amsterdam. It shows the various spellings of the name. There are a number of biographical sketches included in this history including: Jacob Vandegrift, Hon. Charles Souders Vandegrift, Frederic Beasley Vandegrift, John Gibbs Vandegrift, Moses Vandegrift, Samuel Allen Vandegrift, Lewis Herbert Vandegrift, George V. Vandegrift, and J. Wilson Vandegrift.

This is a six part series about the village of Charlois which some believe to be the location where the original Van der Grifts originated who came to America during the mid-1600s.  This series is not about the family but rather gives background on the place they may have come from.  It is reprinted with permission from Henk van Eijk, chairman of the Foundation Historical Charlois.

Lists number of individuals listed in State by year of census who have a surname of Vandegrift, Vandergrift, etc. The time period 1790 through 1840 include numbrs of head of household only.

Christopher, born and died in Delaware. Extensive land owner, military service and member of Delaware State Senate.

Entries include year and city of extract, name, name of wife if married, occupation and address. In the instance the individual is a widow, the entry lists the name of her deceased husband.

A list of fifty-two (52) city directories in seventeen (17) states indicating Vandegrift, et al, entries which are listed in the "City Directory" category, above.

There are miscellaneous obituaries and cemetery extractions in the following states: Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

This is a record of family traits for her grandparents, Leonard Georg and Hester (Dilworth) Vandegrift, originally of Delaware; her maternal grandparents, Isaac Stille and Mary Ann (Boyd) Cleaver, of Delaware; her parents, Abram and Emma Gallaher (Cleaver) Vandegrift, of New Castle County, Delaware, Schafer, North Dakota, and Duluth, Minnesota. The family traits are also recorded for her siblings, Mary Hester, Julia Cleaver, Rachel Lewis, Alan and Mildred Boyd Vandegrift. The family removed from Delaware to North Dakota and Minnesota.

Early days of General Vandegrift’s life was extracted from his memoirs, ONCE A MARINE. His father’s people, two brothers, sailed to America from Holland in the 1770's. After a spell in New Amsterdam, New York, they removed to Virginia and developed a farm outside of Charlottesville.

Gilbert and Joseph Vandergriff were pioneer Hamilton County settlers, buying several thousand acres in the Soddy and Hixon areas in the days when Indians were still residing south of the river.

Short biography; resided in Maryland and Delaware.

The Vandegrift family were early residents of Delaware. Extracts from Volume I and II, History of Delaware, 1609-1888, by J. Thomas Scharf, 1881.

Jack Vandegrift arrived in Mower County, Minnesota in 1856. In 1926 newspaper account, he reminiscences his seventy years in Mower County.

This is an extract taken from the Family Bible of Jacob Vandagriff which was in the possession of Mrs. Raymond G. Vandergriff of Knoxville, Tennessee in 1976. There was a name change from Vandagriff to Van De Griff in the bible records. (Reference: Descendants of John Hansard of Amherst County, Virginia, 1766-1976, by Sam L. Hansard II, page 313).

Jacob J. Vande(r)grift, Merchant, Manufacturer and Capitalist, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1827. Riverman, oil dealer and shipper. The name of Vandergrift was named for him.

About fifteen years after the Civil War a new generation of young men and women had grown up in Lynchburg, Virginia. One of these young people was Miss Jeanie Vandergrift.

Biography of Leonard Vandegrift of St. Georges Hundred, Delaware and extract of his 1819 Will and Last Testament.

There are extracts of marriages in the following locations during certain time frames and in no way is represented as all marriages in the county. The States and Counties included are: ALABAMA (Jefferson); ARKANSAS (Craighead, Pulaski, Saline); COLORADO, 1900-1939; DELAWARE, (New Castle and Delaware State Archives); GEORGIA (Gilmer); ILLINOIS (Cook County Bride Alphabetical Marriage License Listing, Jan 1, 1910-Dec 31, 1914); INDIANA (Elkhart, Marion); KANSAS (marriage of F. L. Vandergrift & Nannie B. Price); KENTUCKY, (Henry, Owen); MARYLAND, (Bohemia Manor, Cecil); MINNESOTA (Ramsey); MISSOURI, (Dade, Lawrence); NORTH CAROLINA, (Wake); OHIO, (Brown, Muskingum, Pike, Scioto, Stark); PENNSYLVANIA, (Allegheny, Bucks, Lancaster, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Archives); TEXAS, (Fannin); VIRGINIA, (Albemarle, Augusta, Campbell, Northampton, Pulaski, Richmond); WEST VIRGINIA, (Fayette).

Some Extracts for both the Revolutionary and Civil War

Extracts from Early Colonial Documents (Marriages, Abstracts of Wills, Colonia Documents, Post-Revolutionary Documents, Guardianships, Newspaper Extracts, etc; History of Gloucester County)

Biographical sketch of Rolland A. Vandegrift, s/o Samuel A. and Margaret (McClay) Vandegrift. He was born November 119, 1893 in Washington, D.C. and died in California on December 17, 1949.

Named for Captain Jacob Jay Vandergrift. Includes information about his family.

Came from Holland during 1760's, operated and built tow boats with son, Leonard who was born in 1799. Approximate dates of birth and death unknown. Overview of Willem Vandegrift, Leonard Vandegrift, Evans Rutherford Vandegrift, Elza Edward Vandegrift and Evans Clarence Vandegrift.