COLONIAL AMERICA CENSUS WORK - LIMITS OF THE 1790 U.S. CENSUS : 13 ORIGINAL COLONIES and THEN SOME

The first census taken in what was the United States was taken in the year 1790 and its a statistical census. It features the names of heads of households, mostly men. There were less than four million people counted. Thomas Jefferson was then the Secretary of State, not yet President, and under his direction the census was taken not by census takers, but by the marshals of the various districts. The census was of the ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES that became STATES but also the districts of Kentucky, Southwest Territory (mostly what is now Tennessee), as well as Maine and Vermont. 

The 13 COLONIES WERE :  New Jersey (NJ), Maryland (MD), Virginia (VA) which included an expanse of what is now South West Pennsylvania*,  Rhode Island (RI), Connecticut (CT), New York (NY), Pennsylvania (PA), North Carolina (NC) and South Carolina (SC) - the state was split in two in 1712, Georgia (GA),  New Hampshire (NH), Massachusetts (MA). We tend to think of the 13 original colonies as all in the North East, as New England, but as you see, three of the states were actually in the South.

* Were your ancestors Colonial's living south of Pittsburgh? Yohoghania County Virginia is the name of the County that was disputed between the state of Virginia and the state of Pennsylvania, also called the District of West Augusta. As land grants and legalities were in dispute, you may want to look at records from both states.

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