Author: United States Bureau of the CensusUnited State Bu
Publisher: Clearfield Co
Keywords: viginia, records, state, enumerations, year, states, families, first, census, united, heads
Number of Pages: 189
Published:
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0806303441
ISBN-13: 9780806303444

No other official record or group of records is as historically significant as the 1790 census of the United States. The taking of this census marked the inauguration of a process that continues right up to our own day--the enumeration at ten-year intervals of the entire American population. In its very continuity the census is a mirror image of the evolution of the American republic, and the census of 1790, the first official enumeration of all heads of household residing in the infant republic, is the true starting point of this process, the place where we can point a finger and say with con