1790 Census Records
The above images are the originals of the 1790 census' records for the sons of John Pardue who died in 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina. A click on the small rectangle in the lower left corner of the screen will bring up captions that designate the columns in which each name appears and each county and state, as well as the page number of the original census.
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In 1790 in the first Federal Census of the new United States, all of John's sons who were alive were enumerated except two, Blackman, who may have not been recorded or recorded in another household, and Morris, who was shown in the 1790 Georgia tax records and who was most probably enumerated in the 1790 Georgia census which was lost. John's enumerated sons were William, Fields, Adams, Richard, Bevel, Liliston, and Joel. His eldest son, John, died in 1783, and his third son, Joseph, died sometime within the year previous to the August 1, 1790 date that began the enumeration of the census.
On the census page in Warren County, North Carolina showing the enumerations for William and Bevel, there also appear three other enumerations bearing the surname who were not John's sons - only one who can be identified - John's grandson, also named John, the son of Joseph, John's third eldest son.
The remaining two households in Warren County record enumerations for a Patram Pardieu and a Joseph Pardieu. Combining information for both Patram and Joseph from later census records show they each were born previous to the year 1765 and combined with tax records, they each were born prior to 1762. Who was the father, or were the fathers, of Patram and Joseph has not been determined, but it appears from various other records, that William, born about 1731, the second of John's sons, is the more likely choice, though, another choice includes John's eldest son, John, who died in 1783, though, there is nothing that indicates that he had any wife or family.
John's third son, Joseph, had a son named, Joseph, also, who at the writing of the elder Joseph's will in 1789, was not yet nineteen years old and the younger Joseph was very probably one of the males under sixteen enumerated in the household of his brother, John, who was appointed administrator of the elder Joseph's estate at the time the first census was being enumerated, thus making the younger Joseph born no earlier than 1774.
Because a legatee in a will was excluded from being a witness, the Joseph Pardue who witnessed the elder Joseph's will was most probably the Joseph Pardue who was enumerated in both the 1790 census and 1800 Warren County census records. After 1800 he moved to Chester County, South Carolina where he was enumerated in the 1810 census. He died in Chester County, SC in 1845.
Other possibilities of the father, or fathers, of Patram and Joseph in the 1790 census' include one, or the other, of those who held the P*rdue surname who remained in the Appomattox River area of Virginia of which DNA testing has shown descendants of those who remained there to have had a recent common ancestor with the John Pardue who moved to North Carolina in 1761. But, as noted in the post on the Perdue/Pardue DNA Project, while DNA can prove kinship, further documentation is needed to confirm the degree of kinship.
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