[Downloaded from Family Tree University, bby Tyler Moss, Online Editor, dated May 27, 2015] Several Web sites serve up Colonial census data, though in most cases, you’ll pay for the convenience. www.Ancestry.com U.S. Records Collection offers a few early censuses, including the 1776 Maryland and 1774 Rhode Island counts. Check the two “unofficial” USGenWeb census projects at www us-census.org and www.rootsweb.com/-census for FREE listings. As this colony-by-colony census rundown shows, printed resources are more plentiful - just not as readily accessible. Unless otherwise noted, the following titles are out of print. But you can get many on FHL microfilm, from Virginia in 1624 right up through the 1776 census of Maryland. Connecticut: Connecticut 1670 Census by Jay Mack Holbrook (Holbrook Research Institute) has a reconstructed census of more than 2,300 heads of families. Delaware: Census records exist for 1665 to 1697, along with a 1693 count of Swedes living in Delaware and parts of nearby Colonies. Georgia: There's no census, but settlers from 1733 to 1747 are in A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia by E. Merton Coulter and Albert B. Saye (Genealogical Publishing Co.). It's on a CD, as well, and in Genealogy Library. Maryland: 1776 Census of Maryland by Bettie Stirling Carothers (self-published) has an index covering most counties. Massachusetts: You won't find a Colonial census, but there's a 1707 Boston census substitute (in Ancestry.com's "A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Miscellaneous Papers") and a 1771 tax valuation list. New Hampshire: Censuses from 1767 and 1775 are available, plus Jay Mack Holbrook's New Hampshire Residents, 1633-1699 (Holbrook Research Institute). New Jersey: Census records from 1726, 1738, 1745 and 1772 were destroyed. Instead, check New Jersey Tax Lists, 1772-1822 edited by Ronald Vern Jackson (Accelerated Indexing Systems). New York: The colony took a census every 10 years from 1690 on, though some records have been lost. You'll find an index and transcriptions in Carol M. Meyers' Early New York State Census Records, 1663-1772 (RAM Publishers). North Carolina: Though there aren't any Colonial censuses, Ronald Vern Jackson collected tax and other lists from the 1680s on in Early North Carolina (Accelerated Indexing Systems). Pennsylvania: No Colonial census records exist-use tax lists and land records as substitutes. Try the Secretary of the Land Office's Rent Rolls, 1703-1744 on FHL microfilm, and The Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd series, volumes 11 to 22, by the General Assembly (J. Severns). Rhode Island: Look for the 1730, 1747 to 1755, 1774 and 1776 censuses in Rhode Island Census, 1740-1890 by Ronald Vera Jackson (Accelerated Indexing Systems). South Carolina: Colonial censuses were destroyed. Use Citizens and Immigrants: South Carolina, 1768 by Mary Bondurant Warren (Heritage Papers) as a substitute. Virginia: Much of the 1624 census is in the two-volume Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th edition, edited by John Frederick Dorman (Genealogical Publishing Co.). For later years, use Virginia in 1720: A Reconstructed Census (TLC Genealogy). Similar volumes cover 1740 and 1760. Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Our Soldiers are one of our greatest assets!"