MY gg grandfather, Nicholas Schermerhorn Bastion (almost always NS, and occasionally Bastian) b.1808 NY, was a teacher in Lebanon, St. Clair Co in 1830. That year he was also converted from his baptismal faith of Dutch Reform at a Methodist Camp meeting. I believe he arrived in Lebanon from from New Albany, Floyd Co, IN, across the Ohio River from Louisville, in 1827. This would have made him 19 when he arrived, and I don't know whether he came with family or not. At any rate, he'd been in St. Clair Co. for some time, and he stayed at least until 1832, when he was admitted to the Methodist ministry on trial and given his first post, which appears to have been in Athens, Sangamon Co. All this is preface to say that he ought to have been enumerated in St. Clair Co. in the 1830 US census. Yet I can't find him. It was once suggested to me that the reason was that as a young school teacher he would have boarded with a family, and thus not been listed. Still, I'd like to ask some kind soul to look again for him. I know he was in the area, and I'd like to prove it. Can someone who knows the terrain, so to speak, hunt for him, please? I'd greatly appreciate it. If there's a small fee, I'd gladly pay it, just to pin him down. It would be the first time Bastion would show up in a census, given that it would be the first time out of his father's household.

Thanks so much,
Doris Waggoner
Seattle