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The counts are for total population, including persons who were enslaved, but generally excluding Native Americans. According to the Census Bureau, these figures likely undercount enslaved people. [2] Shaded blocks indicate periods before the colony was established or chartered, as well as times when it was part of another colony.
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 ...
Every census up to and including 1950 is currently available to the public and can be viewed on microfilm released by the National Archives and Records Administration, the official keeper of archived federal census records. Complete online census records can be accessed for no cost from National Archives facilities and many libraries, [44] and ...
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 ...
The summaries of the 1790 and 1800 census from all states survived. The total is the total immigration over the approximately 130-year span of colonial existence of the U.S. colonies as found in the 1790 census. Many of the colonists, especially from the New England colonies, were already into their fifth generation of being in America.
The law passed on 17 December 1787 named him as a trustee of funds to be raised for clearing, improving and extending the navigation of the Appomattox River. [19] Four years later the Act passed on December 1, 1791 named Pride as a trustee of funds to be raised by Scottville Lodge of Free Masons for building an Academy. [20]
1948 postage stamp depicting the Mississippi Territory. The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that was created under an organic act passed by both upper and lower chambers (the Senate and House of Representatives) of the Congress of the United States, meeting at the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill, in the federal national capital city ...
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.