Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790

The original 1790 enumerations covered the present states of Connecticut Delaware Georgia Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Vermont and Virginia. Unfortunately not all the schedules have survived the returns for the states of Delaware Georgia Kentucky New Jersey Tennessee and Virginia having been lost or destroyed possibly when the British burned the Capitol at Washington during the War of 1812 though there seems to be no proof for this. For Virginia taxpayer lists made in the years 1782-1785 have been reconstructed as replacements for the original returns. In response to repeated requests from genealogists historians and patriotic societies the surviving census records were published by the Bureau of the Census in 1907 and 1908. The twelve states whose records were then extant are each covered by a single volume. This particular volume lists the names of over 40000 household heads.