As we genealogists await the release of the U.S. Census of 1940, just six months away, let’s take another of our occasional looks at a census of the past – this time the very first one, 1790. We’ve ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1790, The first United States Census began as required by the United States Constitution. Thomas Jefferson supervised the first Census. A little under 4 million people were ...

At head of title: Department of Commerce and Labor. U.S. Bureau of the Census. S.N.D. North, director. Roster of heads of families in 1790, so far as can be shown from records of the Census office.

There were 3,929,214 people (including slaves, but not untaxed Indians) in the U.S. in 1790, when Thomas Jefferson ran off the first census. Seventeen censuses later, the U.S. population figures to ...

Population in the colonial and continental periods -- The United States in 1790 -- The first census of the United States -- Area and total population -- Population of counties and their subdivisions - ...

OSAGE COUNTY, Okla. — The United States conducted its first census in 1790, followed by a new one every decade since. While it doesn’t happen again until 2030, a new, different kind of census just ...

Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States. 1790 - The first census is conducted by US marshals and their assistants at a cost of $44,000. The population is estimated to be 3.9 ...