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CENSOR'S REPORT, TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING, COUNTY OF YORK, 1850 Population Pickering - 896 houses, 4 vacant, 7 churches, 18 schools, 9 inns, 12 merchants' shops, 1,023 heads of families assessed, 601 proprietors of real estate, 422 non proprietors, Hector Beaton, enumerator, 6,074 residents No. of School Children - 1,6l6. Churches Church of England - 1,033 Church of Rome - 519 Church of Scotland - 871 Free Prebyterian Church of Canada - 40 Other Presbyterian Church - 178 Wesleyan Methodists - 711 E. P. Methodists - 144 Other Methodists - 190 Baptists - 436 Lutherans - 2 Congregational - 66 Quakers - 272 Unitarians - 2 Mennonites - 119 All other Denominations - 161 No Demonination - 1,207 Racial Origin Natives of England - 823 Natives of Scotland - 441 Natives of Ireland - 1,035 French Canadian - 11 Natives of Canada - 89 No. of Acres of Land 62,407 held by families 22,520 under tillage 7,813 under pasture 30,830 woods 95 unfit for cultivation Aggregate value of cleared land per acre £5,5s Value of wild land £3 Rent paid by tenant 5s 9d Crops Wheat - 7,226 acres - 102,789 bu. Barley- 166½ " - 3,855 " Rye - 227 " - 3,153 " Oats - 4,084 " - 133,824 " Indian Corn - 168 acres - 4,203 bu. Buckwheat - 40½ " - 642 " Potatoes - 345 " -30,249 "