The Heads of Elwell Families in the U.S. Census of 1790


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Heads of Elwell families in 1790 federal census listed under Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and North Carolina (a note advises that the 1790 New Jersey census records were lost or destroyed). Listed alphabetically (by locality, then county, then given name), giving numerical figures per household for males over 16, males under 16, and total number of females.







Genealogies in the Library of Congress


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Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
















Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790


Book Description

"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" -- publisher website (June 2007).