Someone from the Dutchess list asked recently about pre-1790 censuses. I found some, AND THE SAME IS TRUE for other Hudson River and Mohawk River valley counties, too. In the 4 volume 'The Documentary History of the State of New-York', these censuses are available for Dutchess, but other counties and areas have similar censuses and lists: v1 Dutchess County: names of militia officers 363 inhabitants in 1714  368, 691 in 1723  693 in 1731  and '37  694 in 1746  and '49  695 in 1756  696 in 1771  697 v2 Population in 1770 of the country between Rensselaer's and Livingston's manors  965 v3 Claverack census 1714   905 names of some early Dutch immigrants   52 Livingston Manor - a number of reports are in this volume v4 Dutchess County census 1738   184 names of officers and solidiers of the militia in 1738  freeholders in 1740   205 This document is available on CD with added incentives at: http://www.hopefarm.com/leedisk2.htm http://genealogycds.com/sales/DocHistNY.htm http://www.kinshipny.com/kincd.htm or FREE at GoogleBooks (search the title - there are multiple copies available of a few of the volumes). All the best, Julia, IBSSG