The 1790 census was the premiere census in the new United States. Do not worry about differences in style. Each enumerator could create his own table for recording the information about the families to be counted, but the information had to be consistent recorded. Only the head of the household was named, everyone else was reduced to a hack mark, free and slave.
The purpose of the first census was to determine the representation in the House for each state, and to divvy up the costs of the revolution.
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