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Show WHO'S WHO II Ut II VEAR 1798 I Unique Publication From the Census Hureau Gives the Information. LISTS GIVE NAMES OK ONE HUNDRED FAMILIES Reports of Long Ago Now Make a Most Interesting Heritage. v The census bureau 's unique publication, publica-tion, "Who's Who in 1700, "fis just off the press. A limited appropriation makes Yt impossible at tho present time to issue the returns from all tho States then in existence. The schedules foi New Hampshire, Vermont and Maryland, Mary-land, however, arc completed, while thoso from the remaining States will follow soon. Theso volumes are a reprint of the firet census returns. Each will form an attractive booklet of 150 pages, ono volume for each State. Tho original documents form a queer collection. These are preserved in twenty-six oddly assorted volumes in the consus office. For the most part tho headings are written in by hand. Tim marshals, on whose shoulders the task of making the first, enumeration devolved, de-volved, were obliged to furnish their own blanks. In consequence, all sizes and color of paper were used, many of the returns being written on merchants' account forms. These wero .bound, sometimes in wall j paper, sometimes in anything that camo to hand. Crudely sown together, thov vary in size from four inches in length to three feet. Genealogical experts and others Interested Inter-ested in family origins found it practicable practi-cable to refer' to these tablets, and so great was tho demand for information on the subject that the census office decided de-cided to publish tho compilations in convenient con-venient form. Thus, the list of heads of families 117 years ago will bo an open book for ono and all. Tn March, 1790. the Union was composed com-posed of twelve States, IHiode Island, the Jast of tho original thirteen, being admitted May 29. Vermont, however, wns admitted beforo the results of tho first census were announced. Maine wns a part of Massachusetts, Kentucky a part of Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi Mis-sissippi wero included in the State of Georgia. Ohio. Iudiana, Illinois, Michigan Michi-gan and Wisconsin woro known only as the Northwest Territory, while bo-youd bo-youd the Mississippi river lay the great unexplored wilderness, then the property proper-ty of tho Spanish crown. New York city had a population of 33,131. and the entire population of tho United States was 3.231,533. As families fami-lies at. that time averaged six members, the total number of heads of families was about half a million. The records of Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Ten-ncsseo Ten-ncsseo and Virginia were burned when the British set fire to the Capitol in 1812, bnt they have .been supplied in part from State enumerations taken in the same year. Tho object of the census was to ascertain as-certain tho Nation's military and indus trial strength, and the work wns dono under difficulties that seemed almost insurmountable. in-surmountable. Tho journey between Now York and Washington could be accomplished under favorable conditions iu eight days. There were no roads, and bridge:) wero undreamed of. People were suspicious, sus-picious, (earing an increase of taxes. Others had religious scruples, hesitating hesitat-ing to givo their names lest they offend of-fend the Deity. Tho reports that straggled strag-gled in during a year and a half, how-over, how-over, now mako an interesting heritage. |