Product Code: US0356| Number of CDs: 1 Pages: 12 volumes, 12
maps, 2542 Pub. Date: (1907-1908) 2008 Qty in Cart: none The
first U.S. census enumeration began on Monday, August 2, 1790,
just 16 months after the inauguration of President George
Washington and less than nine years after the end of the
Revolutionary War. As the first official record of the citizenry
of this fledgling country, the importance of these records to
those researching the colonial period is unsurpassed. Of the
original 13 states plus 4 territories (now Kentucky, Maine,
Vermont, and Tennessee) that were included in that first census,
only the records of 12 still exist, the remainder having been
lost or destroyed. Upon popular demand, the Bureau of the Census
published those surviving records in 1907-1908 in a series of
twelve volumes, one each for Connecticut, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and
Virginia, the latter having been reconstructed fro