Excerpt from A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing the Statistics of the United States' Direct Tax of 1798, as Assessed on Boston; And the Names of the Inhabitants of Boston in 1790, as Collected for the First National Census<br><br>Society has had the papers bound in twenty volumes, and some indexes have been made. Vol. I. Begins with the north part of Maine Boston is in Vol. IV. The returns of a few towns are missing, accidentally lost. These papers, of course, did not belong to the Custom House, but Gen. Lincoln was in charge of them, while also serving as Col lector.<br><br>The Census of Boston was made in 1790, undoubtedly under the authority Of the United States government, it being the first of the national decennial enumerations. The lists here printed are from the manuscript of Col. Samuel Bradford, now preserved by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.<br><br>In Lemuel Shattuck's admirable Report on the City Census of 1845, it is stated that besides the National Census taken in 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840, there had been two State Censuses, in 1837 and 1840, and special City Censuses in 1825 and 1835. Since that date the State or dered a Census in 1850, and then the State decennial Census was taken in 1855, 1865, 1875, and 1885.<br><br>Although we have made some citations from Shattuck's report, in the first volume of our own reports, the following tables copied from their official statements may be of service. They are Copied from Shattuck's report, and from the State Census of 1885, prepared by Carroll D. Wright.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.