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| Townships in the 1790 Pennsylvania Census |
| The purpose of this page is to help you find particular counties and
townships on the microfilm rolls of the 1790 Census and, for those counties
that were not yet in their final form in 1790, to know what later counties
these census records would belong in today. You can use the links
below to jump directly to a county, or you might want to read the "explanation"
first, to make the table below more intelligible.
Links in ALL-CAPS are to the counties as enumerated in 1790. Links in Initial-Caps are to counties formed after 1790, where some of the included townships came ultimately to rest. Some counties appear in several places in the table, which is why there are multiple links for some counties. [ üThe check marks are for my own research purposes. Please ignore them.] |
| EXPLANATION:
The 1790 Census of Pennsylvania is contained in eight volumes, which were filmed by the National Archives on two rolls of microfilm (M-637-8 and -9). Each of the Heritage Quest Census Microfilm CDs contains the digitized images from one roll of microfilm. The indexes on the CDs are divided into numbered "PARTS," each of which contains one volume. Most of the census pages appear not to have been originally numbered. The numbers appear to have been added at one time because they occur in the same hand, with the same writing implement, and across all volumes on both microfilm rolls — which makes me suspect this numbering was done at the time the pages were microfilmed. These are the page numbers used in the index on the CD. Berk County is the major exception, where its pages (1-169) appear to have been numbered originally. Given that Berks Co. is the first county on Volume 1, the original numbers correspond to the numbers in the index making it the only county where there is this correspondence between original and added page numbers. I had hoped by carefully noting original versus added page numbers that I could sort out the discrepancies between the page numbers given on the Heritage Quest CDs and the page numbers as given on the Broderbund Census Index CD for 1790 (CD-311). This has not been the case, and so I find the Broderbund CD virtually useless for finding a particular individual on a particular census page. The index below is my direct reading of the digitized microfilm on this CD. It is verbatim, even when I knew the scribe had misspelled a placename, in which case I supplied the current name in brackets []. Also, to save room in the table, I abbreviated "Township," as "Twp.," even though in the record it was always spelled out. The indexes below are not just blind copies of the indices produced by the census clerks, ca. 1900-1901, as are sometimes given on the CD, though the two agree about 98% of the time. "HN" = an historical note added by me (information that was not in the census). |
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Family Quest Archives: Pennsylvania Federal Census 1790: Berks, Chester, Delaware, Huntingdon, Mifflin (part), Luzerne, Dauphin, Northampton, Cumberland, Fayette, Westmoreland (part), Bucks, and Lancaster Counties. Heritage Quest CD M637-8. The source for this CD was: 1965. Population Schedules of the First Census of the United State, 1790: Roll 8, Pennsylvania, Volumes 1-5. Microcopy No. 673. National Archives Microfilm Publications, Washington, DC. |
| Heritage Quest CD-M637-8: Pennsylvania Census, 1790, Roll 8 | |||
| PART 3 = Volume 3 | |||
| Unless stated otherwise, there were no numbers originally written on the pages. Numbers were added later, in another hand; these numbers correspond to the page numbers in the index on the CD. | Current
Location |
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| Cumberland
County [the boundaries of Cumberland Co. did not stabilize until 1820; see 1790 Map] |
Townships lumped together:
Westpensborough [West Pennsboro] Twp. Hopewell Twp. Newtown Twp. Tyborn [Toboyne] Twp. |
1-29 |
Cumberland Cumberland Cumberland Perry |
| Intervening pages contain no enumerations | - | - | |
| "Eastern part of Cumberland County" | 34-43 | Cumberland
Perry |
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Family Quest Archives: Pennsylvania Federal Census 1790: Montgomery, Westmoreland (part), Allegheny, Washington, Bedford, Franklin, York, Northumberland, Mifflin (part), and Philadelphia Counties. Heritage Quest CD M637-9. The source for this CD was: 1965. Population Schedules of the First Census of the United State, 1790: Roll 9, Pennsylvania, Volumes 6-8. Microcopy No. 673. National Archives Microfilm Publications, Washington, DC. |
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[The
list of locations, street by street, within the Philadelphia Co. census
goes on for several pages. I doubt if it's worth the effort to transcribe
it.]