When a census was taken in 1843, 50 residents identified their occupations. Twenty-two worked in agriculture, one held appointive office, one was an artisan, one merchant, one professional, 13 semiskilled, and 111 unskilled. Fifty-nine residents were members of two local churches. Thirty-six were Baptists and 23 Methodists.
When Liberia declared its independence in 1847, the country contained 11 towns. Bexley was one of them.
Footnote: U. S., Congress, Senate, U. S. Navy Department, tables showing the number of emigrants and recaptured Africans sent to the colony of Liberia by the government of the United States … together with a census of the colony and a report of its commerce, &c. September, 1843: Senate Document No. 150, 28th Cong., 2n sess., 1845.