History

Notable Alumni

U.S. Marshals

U.S. marshals and their assistants conducted the population, economic, and agriculture censuses from the 1790 through 1870 Censuses. Specially-hired and trained enumerators began collecting census data beginning in 1880.

Learn more about the marshals who conducted the United States censuses from 1790 through 1870 at the U.S. Marshals Service Website.

Introductory Text [477KB, PDF] William Blount, Southwest Territory [572KB, PDF] Henry Dearborn, Maine (1790) [695KB, PDF] Allan McLane, Delaware (1790) [535KB, PDF] John Skinner, North Carolina (1790) [606KB, PDF] Nathaniel Ramsay, Maryland (1790) [507KB, PDF] William Smith, New York (1790) [604KB, PDF] Thomas Lowrey, New Jersey (1790) [510KB, PDF]

Concluding Text [505KB, PDF] Robert Forsyth, Georgia (1790) [678KB, PDF] Edward Carrington, Virginia (1790) [480KB, PDF] Philip Bradley, Connecticut (1790) [600KB, PDF] Jonathan Jackson, Massachusetts (1790) [554KB, PDF] Samuel McDowell, Kentucky (1790) [554KB, PDF] Lewis R. Morris, Vermont (1790) [536KB, PDF]

Lewis R. Morris, Vermont (1790) [536KB, PDF] Thomas Lowrey, New Jersey (1790) [510KB, PDF] William Peck, Rhode Island (1790) [546KB, PDF] Isaac Huger, South Carolina (1790) [861KB, PDF] Clement Biddle, Pennsylvania (1790) [861KB, PDF] John Parker, New Hampshire (1790) [528KB, PDF] William Peck, Rhode Island (1790) [546KB, PDF]