Show OUR FIRST CITIZENS reproduction OF THE CENSUS OF 1790 names of those who by their self made poss ble this great nation are a n made public washington rich mines of antor madiou tor the student of genealogy are contained in the pages of a docu ment printed at the census bureau in response to repeated requests from patriotic societies and persons engaged in looking up the ancestry of aromi nent american families congress ap money tor the publication of a list of the heads of families taken in the first census of 1790 and the first volume of the document has ap feared the amount appropriated for the fiscal year 1907 was insufficient to publish the entire transcription of the first census and the schedules of new hampshire vermont and mary land were chosen the taking of the first census was according to information contained in the report no easy matter marshals of judicial districts were required to take the names of all tree white males 16 years and upward including heads of families with the number of all free white males under 16 years of tree white females including heads of families and of all other free persons and of slaves these schedules says the intro duct on to the report form a unique ml eri tance for the nation since they represent for each of the states con berned a complete list of the heads of families in the united states at the time of the adoption ot the con ution the framers were the statesmen and leaders ol 01 thought but those whose names appear on the schedules of the first census were ta general plain citizens who by their conduct in war and peace made the constitution possible and by their in telli gence and self restraint put it into successful operation the first census comprised an enu aeration me ration of the inhabitants of the present states of connecticut dela ware georgia kentucky maine mary land massachusetts new hampshire new jersey new york north carolina pennsylvania rhode island south carolina tennessee vermont and virginia unfortunately the re turns tor delaware georgia ken tucky new jersey tennessee and virginia were destroyed when the british burned the capitol the total population odthe united states in 1790 exclusive of slaves as derived from the schedules was 3 at that period families averaged six per sons and the total number of names taken was about census takers of that day were treated with even more suspicion than at for the inhabitants imag ined that some new scheme for adal taxation was on foot and were decidedly cautious in revealing their own affairs many were also opposed to the enumeration on religious grounds believing that such presume tion as counting their own numbers would bring upon them the wrath ol 01 god many names which have since become distinguished in the history of maryland do not appear in the first census records showing that the an i of many prominent families were later immigrants records show that one of the corn monest maryland names then as now was beall and its relative beale the comparatively small number of names of other than british origin is remark able magruder was also a prominent name as was likewise howard the of schley several times some one of its bearers doubtless be ing progenitors ot the admiral ol 01 to day richard carvell a name made ta by a recent romance appears but once in the record the bearer being the only free white male of that name carrells carrolls Car rolls were fairly numerous nume roua and so were clagette Cla getts charles carrol of ann arundel county was a large slave owner possessing slaves the name of adelen appears frequent ly the names ot peter ridgely and ridgway are well scattered through out the book the record tor somer set county was destroyed and the other records are far from perfect as many entries are illegible in the finals |