Seeking George Washington in 1790 U.S. Federal Census

Dear Ms. Maltese,

Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!

According to the series description of the Population Schedules for the 1790 Census, Schedules survive for two-thirds of those states including Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. The schedules for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia did not survive.

An additional explanation is available from the NARA web site at https://www.archives.gov/research/census/microfilm-catalog/1790-1890/part-01 about the 1790 Census. Virginia data...was reconstructed from state enumerations from 1782 to 1785 and was intended to replace the missing 1790 schedules.

For more information about the 1790 Census and Virginia, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC (RDT1) via email at archives1reference@nara.gov.

We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your research!

Dear Diane Maltase,

You may also be interested in the following website which has Virginia's 1790 tax lists. Also, Ancestry.com has the Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890

Depending on the exact nature of the information you are trying to determine, you may also wish to contact institutions such as the Fairfax Circuit Court Historic Records Center and the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington for assistance and sources in researching the life and estate of George Washington.

Founders Online has The Papers of George Washington as well as many of his notable contemporaries.