The first United States census of population was conducted in 1790 and has been repeated at 10-year intervals since then. The information which was collected included the names of the head of each family and the number of free white males and females in each household. Starr Library has this information for Vermont as follows:
1790 1st Oversize HA201 v. 11
1790 HA671.5 1790b
1800 2nd Microfilm #598
1810 3rd Microfilm #599
1820 4th Microfilm #600
1830 5th Microfilm #592
1840 6th Microfilm #593
1850 7th Microfilm #594
1860 8th Microfilm #595
1870 9th Microfilm #596
1880 10th Microfilm #597
1900 12th Microfilm #624
1910 13th Microfilm #625
1920 14th Microfilm #741
1930 15th Microfilm #868
The 1890 census was destroyed except for a listing of Civil War soldiers or their widows. The index to this special schedule is available in the Vt. Coll. F48 J336. Name indexes to the schedules listed above are shelved in the Vermont Collection as follows:
1810 3rd Vt. Coll. F48 J3
1820 4th Vt. Coll. F48 J32
1830 5th Vt. Coll. F48 J325
1840 6th Vt. Coll. F48 J33
1850 7th Vt. Coll. F48 J332
We also have the following mortality schedules for Vermont:
1850 Vt. Coll. F48 .J3326 1980
1860 Vt. Coll. F48 J333
No state censuses are known to exist for Vermont, but an early listing of heads of families living in parts of New York, now in Vermont, was made in 1771 and published as the Vermont 1771 Census (Vt. Coll. F48 H7 1982). Published lists of land grantees and petitioners are substitutes for censuses in the pre-statehood period.