DARLINGS IN THE CENSUS OF 1790 The first census of the United States was taken in 1790. It comprised an enumeration of the heads of families, with the number of members of each family, in the present states of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. The returns for the states of Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia were de- stroyed when the British burned the capitol in Washington, during the war of 1812. The origi- nal schedules of the other states are now pre- served in the census office in Washington. The loss of the Virginia records has been in a measure made up by the state enumerations of the years 1782, 1783, 1784 and 1785 and by cer- tain county tax lists. At the time this census was taken the total white population of the United States was 3,172,- 444 and the heads of families enumerated were 410,636. The heads of the enumerated fami- lies were practically the founders of the republic.
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