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1666 Census History

1666 Canadian

Nicolas Langlois

Early Detroit Census

Antoine Langlois

1790 Census History

1790

Conrad Beymer

George Beymer

1800

Juliana Beymer

1870

John Beemer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1790 Census History

1790 United States Federal Census. The names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to the actual images of the 1790 Federal Census, copied from the National Archives and Records Administration microfilm, M637, 12 rolls.  

Enumerators of the 1790 census were asked to include the following categories in the census: name of head of household, number of free white males of sixteen years and older, number of free white males under sixteen years, number of free white females, number of all other free persons, number of slaves, and sometimes town or district of residence. 

The categories allowed Congress to determine persons residing in the United States for collection of taxes and the appropriation of seats in the House of Representatives. This first United States census schedules differs in format from later census material, as each enumerator was expected to make his own copies on whatever paper he could find. Unlike later census schedules an enumerator could arrange the records as he pleased. This database is certain to prove useful for those seeking early American ancestors.

The jurisdiction of the original thirteen states canvassed an area of seventeen present states. Schedules survive for eleven of the thirteen original states: Connecticut, Maine (part of Massachusetts at the time), Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. (Vermont became the fourteenth state early in 1791 and was included in the census schedules).

Enumerators were only required to make one copy of the census schedules to be held by the clerk of the district court in their respective area. In 1830, Congress passed a law requiring the return of all decennial censuses from 1790-1830. At this point it was discovered that many of the 1790 schedules had been lost or destroyed. Thus, we have about two-thirds of the original census from the time period. The 1790 census suffered district losses of Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Virginia. However, some of the schedules for these states have been re-created using tax lists and other records. Virginia was eventually reconstructed from tax lists as well as some counties from North Carolina and Maryland.

Taken from Chapter 5: Research in Census Records, The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy by Loretto Dennis Szucs; edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1997).

 

 

1666 Canada Census History

STATISTICS FOR THE 1666 CENSUS 

These stats are from 'Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871, vol. IV; published in Ottawa, 1876 by I.B. Taylor.
This census was taken during the months of February and March, 1666, as ascertained by the examination of Parochial Registers. This nominal Census is in 154 pages of manuscript is deposited in the Archives of Paris, and there is a copy in the Parliamentary Library in Ottawa. 

The repetition of 21 names, forming five families, has been corrected in the present tables, reducing the number of the population from 3236 to 3215. 

The Royal troops, consisting of from 1000 to 1200 men, in 24 companies, are not included in the Census.

 It has been ascertained that the names of thirty ecclesiastics and nuns are wanting, namely four secular ecclesiastics at Quebec; five at Montreal; ten nuns at Montreal and eleven Jesuits employed in the Indian missions. The whole of the clergy comprised one Bishop, eighteen Priests and ecclesiastics, thirty-one Jesuit priests and brethren.

There were eighteen Ursuline nuns, twenty-three nuns of the Hospitaller order and four Filles Pieuses of the clergy. 

The clergy, nobility, public fumctionaries and farmers are not indicated in the Census of Professions and Trades. 

There had been a somewhat considerable immigration, composed of nobility, farmers and artisans. It also comprised fifty young women, well trained and educated, from an orphanage in Paris
 Total Population of Canada  3,215   2, 034 male  1,181 female
 Total number of families

 538
 Quebec  547  360 male

 187 female
 Montreal  625  384 male

 241 female
 Occupations  Servants  401
 Carpenters  36
 Gentlemen of means  16
 Shoemakers  20
 Masons  32
 Merchants  18
 Tailors  30
 Weavers  16

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