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Prince's Listed in the 1790 US Census

Posted by princefamilyhistory on February 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM

I went to the National Archives this week to see what information they had on the root of this family line in Page County, Virginia.  Here is how the Princes (note the spelling) showed up in that first US census in 1790.  That census only listed the head of each household and then the number of people in that household.  (Note that way back then they published two numbers for each household, "White" and "Black", with the numbers showing below being "White" and no number entered for "Black.")   I was fascinated to see the spelling Prince instead of Printz.  I called Charles Printz right after seeing this to rib him that he has been spelling his name wrong all this time.  Seems like their name often got recorded by government officials as Prince but they referred to themselves (on tombstones and such) as Printz.  The original reason Charles wrote the book was to see why some of his relatives spelled their name Prince and some spelled it Printz.



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