1790 Census
The United States Census of 1790 was the first census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 2, 1790. The ancestry of the 3,929,214 population in 1790 has been estimated by various sources by sampling last names in the very first United States official census and assigning them a country of origin. The estimate results indicate that people of English ancestry made up about 47.5% of the total population or 60.9% of the European American population. Some 80.7% of the total United States population was of European heritage. Around 757,208 were of African descent with 697,624 being slaves. Of the remaining population, more than 75% was of British origin.
The states with the highest percentage of English ancestry were Massachusetts 82%, Vermont 76%, Rhode Island 71%, Virginia including West Virginia 68.5%, Connecticut 67%, Maryland incl.DC 64.5%, North Carolina 66%, New Hampshire 61%, South Carolina 60.2%, Maine 60%, Delaware 60%, Kentucky and Tennessee 57.9%, Georgia 57.4%, New York 52%, New Jersey 47%, Pennsylvania 35.3%,
| Estimated origin - 1790 United States Census | |
|---|---|
| European American Ancestry only | Percentage |
| British (total) | 74.3%+ |
| English | 60.9% |
| Scot-Irish/Scot | 14.3% |
| German | 8.7% |
| Dutch/French/Swedish | 5.4% |
| Irish | 3.7% |
| Unidentifiable | 7.0 % |
| Total | 100% |
| African Americans were some 19.3% of the total U.S population. | |
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