This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: waroper Surnames: Roper Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.roper/1923.1.1.4.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I had little doubt that you, in fact, had a page that said the seventeenth, though I did not take the time to seek to examine every image to look for it. Interestingly, in surveying the 1790 Census data from some other places, it appears to me that the delay in getting the Census done was hardly confined to Pendleton, but seems to have instead been a more generalized problem in some other places in at least both North Carolina and South Carolina. I could not afford the time to try to ascertain the full dimensions of the problem, in either place, which is made harder to ascertain because very often one deputy marshal seems to have enumerated and then certified multiple counties in a geographic area, with the certification coming at the end of the last county included. How many counties were assigned to a deputy and the order in which he completed the enumeration seems to have been uneven. Thus, sometimes the certification for several counties appears unexpectedly at the last page of the last county in the group, which isn't intuitively identifable. No doubt with the first nationally mandated Census enumeration in 1790 the mechanics of organizing and conducting the survey was especially novel, making implementation challenging. In places at the frontier, like Pendleton, the challenge was no doubt greater due in no small part to the existence of less formal and robust governing mechanisms.. Your suggestion to examine the certification ought to create a more generalized rule to do so across most if not ALL counties in 1790. Examination of the date of the certification, when convenient and possible probably should be done in other years as well. Of course, things got a little easier much later when the date of each enumeration was formally shown at the top of each page. Thanks again for pointing this out. I have overlooked this issue in previous posting despite some effort to identify the date of a canvass when it appeared on the same page and seemed to be possibly significant. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>