BURGESSES IN THE 1790
KENTUCKY CENSUS

Note:  The 1790 census for Kentucky was one of those lost during the War of 1812, when the British burned the city of Washington, DC.  At the time, Kentucky was enumerated as a District of Virginia, even though it was in the process of separating itself into its own state.  In 1938 Charles B. Heinemann collected together the personal property tax lists for the nine counties then extant in the District, using surviving records from 1789, 1790, and 1792, as needed.  These were published in one alphabetical list under the title, “First Census” of Kentucky 1790.

There were no Burgesses recorded in the Kentucky tax lists for 1790, although it should be noted that the household of Ralph Hughs in Bourbon Co. incorporated his underaged and unmentioned stepsons, Henry Burgess and Edward Burgess, who later settled in Fleming and Scott Cos., Kentucky, respectively.