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December 7 – Delaware ratifies the Constitution and becomes the first U.S. state (see History of Delaware). December 8 – Mission La Purisima Concepcion is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 11th mission in the California mission chain. December 12 – Pennsylvania becomes the second U.S. state (see History of ...
The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States. It takes place every ten years. It takes place every ten years. The first census after the American Revolution was taken in 1790 under Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson .
1787 (MDCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1787th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 787th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of ...
Population by state in the 1790 Census [30] State Tot. pop. Enslaved pop. Free pop. Connecticut: 237,946 ... December 7, 1787 Delaware: 30 0 2 December 11, 1787 ...
In 1776, Delaware prohibited the importation of slaves, and on December 7, 1787, prohibited both imports and exports of slaves from the state. [3] Delaware never abolished slavery and in order of admission to the Union was the first of the 15 slave states but did not secede from the Union during the American Civil War. [4]
In the 1787 Virginia tax census, he owned eleven enslaved children and seven enslaved adults in Prince William County, as well as 13 horses, 30 cattle and a two-wheeled carriage. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Prince William County voters elected him to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1778 and re-elected him the following year.
Although the 1787 census indicated Carter was a nonresident with a single slave, as well as 11 horses and 41 cattle, [6] by the time of his death, Carter owned more than a dozen slaves. [ 7 ] Thomas Carter also became involved in the local government, first as the road overseer for what was then Washington County, Virginia (serving from 1774 ...
In the 1787 Virginia tax census, Pride paid faxes on 19 enslaved teenagers as well as ten enslaved adults, ten horses and 23 cattle in Amelia County. [28] He or another nonresident of Chesterfield County with the same name paid taxes on nine enslaved teenagers there, as well as nineteen adult slaves, eleven horses and sixteen cattle.