State census of North Carolina, 1784-1787.
Transcription of a state census taken in North Carolina. In November 1784, the North Carolina General Assembly passed an act requiring that the census be taken. County officials conducted the state census in 1786 and 1787. Some counties named the heads of households and others counted the inhabitants only. Census lists 14,000 heads of households and provides an enumeration of individuals in each household by age, sex, and race. The following counties survive with names: Bertie, Burke, Caswell, Chowan, Duplin, Gates, Granville, Halifax, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Martin, Montgomery, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Richmond, Surry, Tyrrell, Warren, Wilkes.
State Census of North Carolina, 1784-1787 by Call Number: 929.3756 NOR NCCISBN: 0806305568Publication Date: 1971North Carolina : State Dept. of Archives and History. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1973. Second edition, revised.
- Ancestry Library Edition: (available in all library branches):
Corrections and Additions:
- Online:
- 1786 Census of North Carolina. North Carolina genealogy - v. 13 (1967) - v. 13, no. 4 (winter 1967) Page 1996.
- Granville County: 1786 Census. North Carolina genealogy - v. 14 (1968) - v. 14, no. 3 (fall 1968) Page 2155.
- 1784-7 Census of North Carolina. North Carolina genealogy - v. 21 (1975) - v. 21, no. 2 (fall/winter 1975) Page 3128.
- Print:
- 929.1 NOR NCC v.11, 1985. "1787 Census Return for Pearson's Company, Rowan County, N.C." North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal v. 11, no. 4 (Nov. 1985)