The First Census
Nomenclature dealing with Names
Represented by at least 100 white persons by States, 1790 census
Name Powell Hilton Bottom Avg. Family sz. 5.6 5.1 4.6 Heads Family 478 121 28 All Others 2174 502 101
Number Heads of Families by State
State Powell Hilton Bottom ME 0 29 0 NH 3 13 0 VT 11 0 5 MA 16 12 0 RI 0 0 9 CT 3 1 0 NY 61 20 0 PA 51 4 0 MD 33 15 0 VA 128 2 9 NC 139 20 2 SC 33 2 2
What are your chances of descending from an ancestor that served in the Revolution? To find an answer to this question, you first have to do a lot of assuming. Assume all your direct ancestors were in America at the time of the Revolution. Your direct line ancestors double with each generation. Thus you count the number of generations separating you from your Revolutionary ancestor and calculate the number of great grandparents you have for that generation as this chart illistrates.
Generation # Direct Ancestors 5th GGGrandparent 16 6th GGGGrandparent 32 7th GGGGGrandparent 64 8th GGGGGGrandparent 128 If you have not traced any line back to 1776, use 6 if you were born abound 1900, and 7 if you were born closer to 1950. I am eight generations from Charles Powell, so I would have 128 great grandparents of his generation. Your chances of having an ancestor in the Revolution decrease if you have a line that entered America after the Revolution. Lines you are unable to trace do not reduce your chances of having a Revoultionary ancestor, only your chances of identifying that ancestor.
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