Only by the names and only through the names could they trace the origin of those people. It should also be noted that In the 1790 census it is not reasonable to exbect that there could be as accurate counting of numbers and enumerating of names as there can be in this great advanced day. Yet we find in the record before the Committee on Immigration witnesses from various departments. more particularly the Census Bureau. Indicating that so far as they knew the record of 1790. the census of 1790. was as accurate as the last census taken by the United States. Those were statements that surprised Immensely the members of the committee who heard them made at the time.
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