The images in this gallery have been categorized with something smugmug.com calls KEYWORDS. Keywords can help you find what you are looking for. You can click the keywords listed below the featured image to see other images grouped in the same categories. For example, if you are viewing an image with a particular surname or a certain county listed in its keywords, you can click on the keyword to see other images grouped with that surname or county. For tips on making the census images larger on your screen, see the viewing tips in the footnote below. 1790 was the year of the First Census of the United States. The census date was 2 August 1790. What is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and eastern Minnesota was then Northwest Territory. The original thirteen states covered the area of what would now be the first seventeen states. Schedules survive for eleven of the thirteen original states: Connecticut, Maine (which was a part of Massachusetts), Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont, which became the fourteenth state early in 1791 and was included in the census.
Enumerators were required to file a copy of the census schedule with the Clerk of the District Court. In 1830, Congress required the returns of all decennial censuses from 1790-1830, and it was discovered that many of the 1790 schedules had been destroyed or lost. Only about two-thirds of the original census from the time period were recovered. No schedules are known to exist for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee (Southwest Territory), and Virginia. However, some of the schedules for these states have been re-created using tax lists and other records. Virginia was eventually reconstructed from tax lists as well as some counties from North Carolina and Maryland.
1790 Questions: Head of household, Number of free white males ages 16 and older, Number of free white males under the age of 16, Number of free white females, Number of all other free persons, Number of slaves
Enumerators were required to file a copy of the census schedule with the Clerk of the District Court. In 1830, Congress required the returns of all decennial censuses from 1790-1830, and it was discovered that many of the 1790 schedules had been destroyed or lost. Only about two-thirds of the original census from the time period were recovered. No schedules are known to exist for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee (Southwest Territory), and Virginia. However, some of the schedules for these states have been re-created using tax lists and other records. Virginia was eventually reconstructed from tax lists as well as some counties from North Carolina and Maryland.
1790 Questions: Head of household, Number of free white males ages 16 and older, Number of free white males under the age of 16, Number of free white females, Number of all other free persons, Number of slaves
