By: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Pub. 1908, reprinted 2024, 294 pages, Index, 8 1/2" x 11", soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-175-3. Heads of families at the first census of the U.S. taken in the year 1790. The index lists the names of more than 51,000 household heads, with information concerning their place of residence, the size of their families, and the approximate ages of the male family members. In addition, the schedules are arranged by county and in some cases by minor subdivisions of counties, thus enabling the researcher to narrow his field of research to a particular judicial district. Additional information to be found within: Number of free white males of sixteen years and upward; number of free white males under sixteen years; number of free white females; number of all other free persons; number of slaves.

Compiled from original records in the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, this work lists 14,000 heads of households and provides an enumeration of individuals in each household by age, sex, and race. In addition, individuals named are listed under a reference to the original census page, thus furnishing the researcher with a key to the manuscript records. Based on a special state enumeration, this 1784-87 census names many individuals who had left North Carolina by the time of the first federal census of 1790.