These Fosters | 1790 U.S. Census

1790 U.S. Census – Union County SC

1790 U.S. Federal Census - Union County South Carolina

THUMBNAIL

FOSTERS IDENTIFIED	NEARBY KIN	PLACE
John Foster	Jasper Family	Grindal Shoals, Union County SC
	Moseley Family
	Hames Family
	McWhirter Family
	Fowler Family
	Maybry Family
	Stribling Faily

The information under the column headings also tell us a little bit more about the John Foster family at this point.

Free while males 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 1
Free while males under 16 years: 3 (most genealogies show 4 of Johns sons born before 1790 – someone is evidently younger).
Free while females, including heads of families: 6 (Six? Mary, Nancy and four other unknown females)
All other persons: 0
Slaves: 0

To get a sense of just how virgin the area and the country were at that time, here are the totals the 1790 census revealed:

	Union County	South Carolina	United States
Free white males 16+	1,500	35,576	807,094
Free white males <16	1,809	37,722	791,850
Free white females	3,121	66,880	1,541,263
Others	48	1,801	59,150
Slaves	1215	107,094	694,280
TOTAL	7,693	249,073	3,893,635

Just for modern comparison, today the population of South Carolina is 4.8 million, that’s a million more than the population of the entire United States in 1790. The city of Edmonton is nearly 3x more populous today than all of South Carolina was in 1790. The 1790 population of Union County (which also included what is now Cherokee County) would roughly match that of the city of Union today.