American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790
- Book Review,
by Evarts Greene, et al
From Book News, Inc.
This compilation of detailed, essentially uninterpreted data regarding the population within the territorial limits of the US up to the taking of the first Federal Census in 1790 is a facsimile of the original Columbia U. Press edition of 1932. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Book Description
This is an exhaustive survey of the population lists, estimates, and statistics that were produced in the American colonies before the first federal census of 1790. The population lists, which are of paramount importance to the genealogist, include poll lists, tax lists, taxables, militia lists, and censuses, and were originally drawn up for purposes of taxation and local defense. Gleaned from archives in Britain and the U.S. and from a wide range of published sources, their itemization in this work puts colonial population records in a handy framework for research, much like Ann Lainhart's work on post-colonial population records below. Coverage, by the way, isn't confined merely to the original thirteen colonies, but includes population lists from territories such as the Illinois Country, Kentucky and Tennessee, and the northern and southern Indian Departments.
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