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Decennial Population and Housing Censuses Guide
1790 Census Reports
- Questionnaire, instructions, and table headers
- * Questionnaire description - from
Measuring America (Sept. 2002)
- * Table headers - from Seventh Census of
the United States, 1850 (I8.5:1)
- Return of the Whole Number of Persons Within the Several Districts
of the United States
- Census
Bureau PDF file
- U.S. Documents C3.14:790/rep. 1942 (reclassed from
I2.5:1790)
- * GEOGRAPHIES: Nation, states, counties, and towns; North Carolina
also reported data by district
- * CONTENTS: Sex, Age (of free white males 16 & over, under 16),
Other free persons, Slaves
- Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken
in the Year 1790
- Census
Bureau PDF files (12 volumes)
- U.S. Documents C3.11:N81/3 (North Carolina volume
only)
- * Reports are available for Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Vermont and Virginia
- * Returns for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Tennessee were
destroyed when the Capitol building was burned in 1812.
- * Provides the numbers of persons in each household characterized
by the questions found in Return of the Whole Number of
Persons.
- * The North Carolina Heads of Families volume is the only
Census product in the NCSU Libraries that contains individual family
names.
- * Surnames are not in alphabetical order in the tables, but an index is
provided for each volume.
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