Many genealogical researchers believe that the federal census for the Northwest Territory in 1790 and 1800 either were not taken or that the schedules had been lost. In The Territorial Papers of the United States, volumes two and three for the Northwest Territory, there are all types of documents that could be used to recreate these two censuses.
The websites for the National Archives and the Library of Congress has the census summaries for the Northwest Territory for both 1790 and 1800, proving that the censuses were taken during these two years. It was now possible to properly recreate these censuses.
The Territorial Papers have a large number of documents showing appointments of county officials, commissioning of militia officers, heads of households, landownerÕs lists, and petitions of voters. Searching other sources revealed a list of squatters, tax lists, and voter lists. All of these records have the names of men (and some women) who were residents of the Northwest Territory. These were the perfect records to be used in order to recreate the 1790 and 1800 census.
This reconstruction of the 1790 and 1800 census schedules is not perfect, but it may be the best list heads of households until the ÔlostÕ documents are rediscovered. A total of 14,062 names were taken from sixty-nine different documents, which listed the residents of the Northwest Territory. Many men and women were listed a number of times within these documents. Approximately 8,220 individual residents are listed in this reconstruction., Genealogy, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Eric Eugene Johnson| | 358PAGES