1885 Dakota Territory Census (Jamestown) + 1884 Patrick Murphy Declaration of Intent (composite PDF)

Summary

Five-page composite PDF the user assembled: - **Pages 1-2**: Schedule I — Inhabitants in Jamestown, Stutsman County, Dakota Territory, enumerated 1 June 1885 by B. S. Russell, Enumerator. The two pages appear to be near-duplicate scans of the same enumeration sheet. Page 11 of the schedule; Supervisor's Dist 21; Enumeration Dist 44. - **Page 3**: Title page "NORTH DAKOTA STUTSMAN COUNTY NATURALIZATION RECORDS 1874 THROUGH 1915". - **Page 4**: Divider "VOLUME 2". - **Page 5**: Two declarations from the Stutsman County Naturalization Volume 2, page 110: - Patrick Murphy declaration sworn 4 Nov 1884 (full extraction in document 1884-11-04_stutsman-county-dakota_patrick-murphy-declaration-of-intent). - George Linskens declaration sworn 6 Nov 1884 (Holland, b. 1859, arr NY May 1874; peripheral). **1885 census Jamestown — Murphy entries**: Looking at the visible rows, Row 16 reads as **"Mr. Patrick"** age 25 M Boarder Ireland — surname column suggests Murphy via ditto marks from the surrounding rows. If correct, this identifies Patrick Murphy living as a single boarder in Jamestown on 1 June 1885 — age 25 vs his actual 27 (b. Apr 1858), within the normal census-age-drift band. PROVISIONAL identification — would need a full vision-transcription pass to confirm the row 16 surname interpretation.

Household as enumerated

People — link detail

• Patrick Murphy (my ancestor)(as printed: [Mr.?] Patrick [Murphy?])
  role: boarder · family confidence: 75 strong

  age: 25 · sex: M · birthplace: Ireland

  PROVISIONAL. Row 16 of the 1885 Jamestown enumeration sheet shows a "Patrick" age 25 M Boarder, Ireland-born. Age 25 vs Patrick's actual 27 (b. Apr 1858) is a 2-year drift — tolerable for period census reporting. Surname inferred from ditto marks. The 1884 Declaration (page 5 of this composite) anchors Patrick in Stutsman County in Nov 1884; 1885 boarder status would fit.

Also mentioned

• B. S. Russell · enumerator

  1885 Dakota Territory census enumerator for Jamestown / Stutsman County.

• George Linskens · peripheral_naturalization_page

  Born Holland 1859, arr NY May 1874, sworn 6 Nov 1884 in Stutsman — entry on the same naturalization-volume page as Patrick's.

Places

• Stutsman County, North Dakota (primary)
• Jamestown, North Dakota (primary)
• Dakota Territory / North Dakota (primary)

Themes

• emigration_from_ireland
• dakota_territory_settlement

Story threads

• The Pat-and-Ellen Murphy household — Butte 1887 to LA 1980

Tags

• source_primary_family
• evidence_supporting
• direct_family

Related sources

• 1884-11-04 — North Dakota, U.S., Naturalizations, 1873-1952 — Stutsman County Volume 2 — Declaration of Intent — Patrick Murphy, native of Ireland, b. 1858, arr. NY March 1882; filed Jamestown ND 4 Nov 1884

Open questions

• The 1885 census Murphy identification needs vision-script confirmation. The row 16 surname could be Murphy (via ditto) or something else entirely (e.g., "Mr." being part of a different name structure).
• The composite PDF's page 1 and page 2 appear to be the same enumeration sheet scanned twice. Worth confirming whether they are duplicates or sequential pages (the latter would reveal more Murphy entries in the same Jamestown enumeration district).