MIDDLEBORO — Most people think of Middleboro as a quiet town. But the municipality was once one of the largest settlements in the early United States. According to data from the 1790 United States ...

If you take a beginning genealogy course you will often learn, as I did many years ago, that the 1790 census was destroyed by fire when the British invaded Washington D.C., during the War of 1812. But ...

__1790: __In keeping with a tradition at least as old as the Romans and constitutionally mandated by the Founding Fathers, the first U.S. Census begins. Federal representatives fanned out across the ...

LEWISBURG — Historian Bruce Teeple will speak at 2 p.m. Feb. 10 at the 1793 Dale/Engle/Walker House, 1471 Strawbridge Road, Lewisburg. The program, “The 1790 Census: What It Says and What It Doesn’t” ...

The Official Medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society--1795 This is the second post in a six-part series dealing with the race questions on the census. Just as the concept of race differs from ...

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In response to the May 10 column by Ted Diadiun, “Census questions not up to liberal judges:" The 1790 census taken after the founding of our country called for the name of the head of the family and ...

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Knock, knock. Who's there? The census taker. The census taker who? No, really, this is no joke. It's the census taker. "Snapshot of America" Super Bowl ads were followed by letters alerting that forms ...

When U.S. marshals went out on horseback, beginning in 1790, to take the first census, they counted 3.9 million people at an overall cost of $45,000. Over 18 months, they went door to door through the ...

The Official Medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society--1795 This is the second post in a six-part series dealing with the race questions on the census. Just as the concept of race differs from ...