List of Potential 1790 Census Substitutes

The following is a list of possible substitutes for missing or damaged 1790 census records.

Tax Rolls

• Poll tax
• Personal property
• Real estate
• 1863 income tax
• 1798 property tax
• Assessors' lists
• Faculty lists
• Rate lists

Land Records

• Entries plats
• Plat maps
• Lotteries
• Processioning lists
• Perambulations
• Ground rents
• Quitrents
• Debt books
• Permits to settle
• Land grant lists
• Suspended land grants
• Headright claims
• Lists of indentured servants
• Immigrant land allowances
• Inquisitions
• Devises' lists
• Heir lists

Court Records

• Oaths of allegiance
• Registers of papists (Roman Catholics)
• Lists of attorneys
• Lists of constables
• Lists of jurors
• Jury pay lists
• Jury attendance lists
• Commissions of officials
• Appointments of Justices of the peace
• Lists of gamekeepers

Road Records

• Petitions
• Plats
• Appointments of road officials

Voters' Records

• Voters' register
• Voters' lists
• Poll books
• Register of intended voters
• Register of freemen
• Lists of freeholders
• Lists of rejected voters
• Oaths of office
• Loyalty oaths
• Freemen admissions

Militia Records

• Militia lists
• Muster rolls
• Muster-in rolls
• Muster-out rolls
• Payrolls
• Lists of males over age 16
• Troop returns
• Enlistments
• Enrollments
• Lists of recruits
• Substitutes
• Lists of rejected men
• Wagoners' rolls
• Casualty lists

Church Records

• Pew rents
• Membership lists
• Rate rolls
• Collection lists
• Subscription lists
• Lists of paupers

School Lists

• Matriculation lists
• Attendance lists
• Examination lists
• Tuition lists
• Subscription Lists
• Pupil lists
• Teacher lists

Legislative Records

• Petitions
• Memorials

Ships' Records

• Crew lists
• Register of seamen
• Seamens' oaths
• Seamens' certificates
• Officers' lists
• Sick rosters
• Death registers
• Casualty lists

Miscellaneous Records

• City directories
• Register of prisoners
• Register of slaves
• Register of free negroes
• Prisoners of war
• Manumission lists
• Register of unmarried persons
• Orphans' register
• Lists of physicians
• Lists of midwives
• Lists of strangers