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The United States Census of 1790 was the first
Census conducted in the United States. It
was conducted on August 2, 1790. It showed that 3,929,326[1] people
were living in the United States of which 697,681 were slaves, and
that the largest cities were New York City with 33,000 inhabitants; Philadelphia, with
28,000; Boston, with 18,000;
Charleston, South Carolina,
with 16,000; and Baltimore, with 13,000. Census records for
Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, and Virginia were lost sometime
between 1790 and 1830.[2]
Overview
The information found in the 1790 census is as follows. Columns,
left to right:
- Name of head of family
- Number of free white males 16 and up, including heads of
families
- Number of free white males under 16
- Number of free white females including heads of families
- Number of all other free persons, except Indians not taxed
- Number of slaves
Data
Availability
No microdata from the 1790
population census are available, but aggregate data for small areas, together
with compatible cartographic boundary files, can be downloaded from
the National
Historical Geographic Information System.
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