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Series: M637 Rolls: 1 - 12
1790 Facts
1. First U.S. decennial population census.
2. U.S. population: 3.9 million
(3.2 million free, .7 million slave)
3. Census conducted by U.S. marshals under the
direction of the president.
4. Census day: 1st Monday in August (2 August 1790).
5. Mandated copies: One set, sent to the federal district
court. Same copy ordered sent to the
U.S. Secretary of State in 1830.
6. A printed list of the 1790 census is available
on microfilm as National Archives' publication:
Series: T498 Rolls: 1,2, and 3.
These are the original census schedules for 1790.
Schedules for some counties are missing. No schedules are known to
exist for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and
Virginia; apparently they were destroyed during the British attack
on Washington during the War of 1812.
The 1790 schedules for Virginia which appear on microfilm publication
T498 were reconstructed from State enumerations.
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