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  WILLIAMSBURG, VA - CENSUS - 1782 Taxlist
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  Title:  Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in
  the year 1790. : records of the state enumerations, 1782 to 1785.
  
          City of Publication:Washington
          Publisher:              G.P.O.
          Date:           1908
          Page Count:             193
          Notes:          At head of title: Department of Commerce and
  Labor, Bureau of the Census, S.N.D. North, director.
  Includes index.
  
    The First Census of the United States (1790) comprised an enumeration of the
  inhabitants of the present states of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky,
  Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North
  Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, and
  Virginia.
  
    A complete set of the schedules for each state, with a summary for the
  counties, and in many cases for towns, was filed in the State Department, but
  unfortunately they are not now complete, the returns for the states of
  Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia having been
  destroyed when the British burned the Capitol at Washington during the War of
  1812. For several of the states for which schedules are lacking it is probable
  that the Director of the Census could obtain lists which would present the
  names of most of the heads of families at the date of the First Census. At the
  census of 1790 the state of Virginia was returned with a population of
  747,160, leading, by more than 300,000, Pennsylvania, the second state of the
  Union in point of population at the First Census. The loss of Virginia's
  original schedules for the First and Second censuses is so unfortunate that
  every endeavor has been made to secure data that would in some measure fill
  the vacancy. The only records that could be secured were some manuscript lists
  of state enumerations made in the years 11782, 1783, 1784, and 1785; also the
  tax lists of Green-brier county from 1783 to 1786. These documents were on
  file in the State Library and could not be removed there from. Through the
  courtesy of the State Librarian and the members of the Library Board, an act
  was passed by the legislature allowing the Census Office to withdraw the lists
  for the purpose of making copies and publishing the names, in lieu of t
  Federal census returns. The counties for which the names of the heads of
  families are returned on the state census lists are 39 in number, and
  contained in 1790 a population of 370,000; 41 counties with 377,000 population
  are lacking; this publication covers, therefore, only about one-half of the
  state.
  
  NAME OF HEAD OF FAMILY       White   Black
  Randolph, Betty                              3      15
  Wythe, George, esqr             5       9
  Cocke, James                    3       7
  Tazewell, Sarah                 7       6
  Bland, William                  4       8
  Nichols James                   6       1
  Orr, Katharine                  2      10
  Carter, William                 6       8
  Carter, James                   2       6
  Carter, John                    5       4
  
  
  
  
  

Details of Elizabeth's family with Thomas Mann Randolph