HEADS OF FAMILIES
AT THE FIRST CENSUS OF THE
UNITED STATES TAKEN
IN THE YEAR
1790

NEW YORK

Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
Baltimore     1976

Originally Published
Government Printing Office
Washington 1908

LOC 73-167707
ISBN 0-8063-0485-5


	Staff member Wes Morris and volunteer Mary Anna Parish of the
Saratoga County, NY, Historian's Office, under the direction of Historian
Karen Ufford Campola, prepared the original computer database containing 
these census data. We are grateful to them for making this available to
the genealogical community through the Saratoga Co., NY GenWeb Page,
as part of the NY GenWeb Project and the US GenWeb Project. Heritage
Hunters volunteers John Boyce and Fletcher Blanchard performed the final
edit and conversion to an HTML document.    


	The database fields, based on the original census schedules for the
heads of families are: 
Name of Head of Family|Free white males of|Free white males|Free white females    |All other|Slaves|Town (from
Surname | Given Name  |16 years and upward| under 16 years |inc. heads of families|         |      |Albany Co.)
           
           These have been abbreviated for the database headers as:

SURNAME  |  GIVEN  |  MALE OV16  |  U16  | FEM  |  OTH  |  SLAVES  |  TOWN 

Note: The principal objective in presenting this database was to reproduce
the published 1790 Census data as accurately as possible while making
a few reasonable assumptions. Some entries seem to be duplicates but
appear on different pages so they have been included. A few entries have
0 0 0 0 0 for the number of members of the household under the five
categories described above. There is obviously an error here but there is
no basis for guessing that there should have been at least 1 "free white
mail of 16 years and upward" recorded. Names were copied as they
appear in the published report though in a number of cases, it seems
that there may have been some miscommunication between the person
being tallied and the census taker. One of the more difficult blocks of
names to contend with was the Vs. The published census record uses
V: as an abbreviation for Van in many places (ex. V: Dewerkam), yet
also shows some names written in full (ex. Van Dyke). Here again the
record as published was reproduced in the database as accurately as
possible with the exception that if a space was missing following V:,
one was added to facilitate alpha sorting on Surname. If you find entries
that are incorrect, please notify the Saratoga GenWeb with a brief
supporting statement.
						
 		                                          January 1997