From The Pettit Correspondent, Volume 2, Number 3, page 85

Pettits in the 1790 Federal Census

There are no extant census schedules for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia. However, a replacement schedule has been reconstructed from earlier state enumerations. As these readings do not fit easily into the following columns they are found here as footnotes.



                       Column 1-16 UP        4-ALL OTHER FREE PERSONS
                              2-UNDER 16     5-SLAVES
                              3-FEMALES

         Head of Household          #5     County         State       1   2   3   4   5

Alladie Pettit (1) Columbia NY 3 0 3 0 0 Ann Pettet (2) Allegheny PA 0 4 2 0 0 Archabald Pettit (3) Orange NY 1 2 1 0 0 Benjamin Pettit (4) Queens NY 3 1 3 0 0 Charles & Andrew Pettit (5) Philadelphia PA 3 1 3 0 1 David Pettit (6) Dutchess NY 1 1 2 0 0 Pettite (7) Wayne NC 1 0 2 0 0 Ebenezer1 Pettit (8) Harrison VA - - - - - (9) Dutchess NY 3 1 5 0 0 Elies Pettit (10) Westmoreland PA 1 0 1 0 0 Elija Pettit (11) Westmoreland PA 1 0 1 0 0 Elijah Pettit (12) Queens NY 1 1 1 0 0 Elizabeth2 Pettit (13) Fairfax VA - - - - - Elnathan Pettitt (14) Bucks PA 2 1 3 0 0 George Pettitt (15) Stokes NC 1 2 1 0 0 Gideon Pettite (16) Pitt NC 1 2 3 0 0 Henry Pattit (17) Spartanburg SC 1 1 2 0 0 Increase Pettit (18) Queens NY 2 1 2 0 0 Isaac Petitt (19) Washington PA 4 1 3 0 0 Pettit (20) Queens NY 1 2 5 0 0 (21) Queens NY 2 1 5 0 0 Jacob Pettit (22) Dutchess NY 1 3 1 0 0 James Pettet (23) Franklin PA 1 1 4 0 0 Pettit (24) Frederick MD 3 1 3 0 0 (25) Queens NY 1 2 4 0 0 (26)3 Fairfax VA - - - - - Poteet (27) Harford MD 1 0 2 0 0 Jeremiah Pettet (28) Allegheny PA 2 0 2 0 0 Jno. Pettit (29) Chester PA 1 0 1 0 0 (30) Washington PA 1 2 2 0 0 Joel Pettit (31) Litchfield CT 2 0 2 0 0 John Pettet (32) Westmoreland PA 3 2 4 0 0 (33) Caswell NC4 - - - - - Pettit (34) Albany NY 1 0 1 0 0 (35) Albany NY 2 5 4 0 2 (36) Queens NY 2 0 4 0 0 (37) Queens NY 1 0 1 0 0 (38) Litchfield CT 2 0 2 0 0 (39) Queens NY 2 2 3 0 0 Jonathan Pettit (40) Albany NY 2 5 1 0 0 (41) Columbia NY 1 2 3 0 0 Joseph Pettit (42) Queens NY 1 4 3 0 0 Joseph (Jr) Pettit (43) Queens NY 1 1 2 0 0 Joshua Pattit (44) Spartanburg SC 1 0 2 0 0 Pettit (45) Queens NY 1 4 1 0 0 Josiah Pettit (46) Columbia NY 1 3 4 0 0 Mark Pettit (47) Richmond NC 1 1 3 0 0 Micah Pettit (48) Queens NY 1 2 4 0 2 Moses Pettit (49) Georgetown SC 1 2 2 0 0 Obediah Pettit (50) Queens NY 1 3 3 0 0 Peter Pettit (51) Queens NY 1 2 3 0 0 Rachel Pettite (52) Stokes NC 3 1 4 0 0 Richard Pettit (53) NY NY 1 1 1 0 0 Saml Pettit (54) Litchfield CT 4 0 2 0 0 Samuel Pettit (55) Queens NY 2 1 3 0 0 Pettitt (56) Bucks PA 1 2 4 0 0 Petut (57) Columbia NY 1 2 5 0 0 Seth Pettit (58) Columbia NY 2 4 2 0 0 Solomon Pettit (59) Litchfield CT 1 0 1 0 0 Stephen Pettit (60) Queens NY 1 2 2 0 0 (61) Queens NY 3 2 2 0 0 Sylvanus Pettit (62) Queens NY 1 1 2 0 0 Thessia Pettit (63) Queens NY 0 0 2 0 0 Thomas Pettit (64) NY NY 1 1 2 0 0 (65) York PA 1 1 1 0 0 (66) Westmoreland PA 1 0 2 0 0 Pettite (67) Stokes NC 1 4 3 0 0 Thos Pettet (68) York PA 1 2 3 0 0 Poteet (69) Harford MD 1 5 1 0 0 Timothy Pettit (70) Queens NY 2 3 3 0 0 William Pettit (71) Queens NY 1 3 3 0 0 (72) NY NY 1 0 1 0 0 (73) Queens NY 1 3 4 0 0 William (Jr.) Petit (74) Chester PA 2 4 2 0 0 William (Sr.) Petit (75) Chester PA 1 2 4 0 0
110 whites; 1 dwelling (1785) 24 whites (1785) 34 whites (1782) 4taken from state tax list 5Reference number - has no bearing on the census.