Where is George Washington in the 1790 census?

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I am filling out the census with my daughter, showing her images of past censuses, and she wanted to see George Washington in 1790. I didn't immediately see him in FamilySearch, unless he was living in Massachusetts for some reason. And I didn't see it on his Wikitree profile. Can anyone point me toward a FamilySearch image?

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The President's House, at 524–30 Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the third Presidential Mansion. It housed George Washington from November 27, 1790 to March 10, 1797 and John Adams from March 21, 1797 to May 30, 1800.

The 57-year-old Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, in New York City

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Answer 1

It's likely that he was living at Mount Vernon in Virginia in 1790. Per the Family Search Wiki citing the National Archives, "No schedules are known to exist for Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia; apparently they were destroyed during the British attack on Washington during the War of 1812. The 1790 schedules for Virginia that appear on microfilm publication T498 were reconstructed from state enumerations."

This is likely why we're not finding him by searching in the 1790 US Federal Census.

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Of course! I had forgotten.

Answer 2

Here he is:

"United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKG-6R5 : accessed 22 March 2020), George Washington, Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 631, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 4; FHL microfilm 568,144. 

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So he was living in Massachusetts?

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Turns out this is a more complicated question than I'd thought.  

According to the Wikipedia main article on Washington (assuming you both mean the first President of the U.S. and not some other George Washington), he was at Mount Vernon when he was notified on April 5, 1789 that he had been elected President.  He was inaugurated April 30, 1789 in New York City.  Another Wikipedia article states he moved into the President's House in Philadelphia in November 1790.

So it's curious that he would have moved to Massachusetts.

Turns out that I do not have the resources to answer this question.  I'm sure there are many biographies of Washington, and some WikiTreers may own some, but I do not.  My old Encyclopedia Britannica was no help.

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Julie, you have spotted a "problem" -- it's worrisome, not just peculiar ... are they talking the same one George Washington?

George Washington in the Boston area, mapped

 The 57-year-old Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, in New York City. Because Washington, D.C., America's future capital city wasn't yet built, he lived in New York and Philadelphia.

He WAS briefly in Massachusetts during Shay's Rebellion ... 

Possible I suppose his wife had properties there of which he would by law be manager of upon their marriage unless specified by some other preceding document in a  "pre-nup"