The 1790 U.S. Federal Census was the very first enumeration conducted of the United States population as provided for in the U.S. Constitution. The exact format was not specified, but fortunately it includes SOME information -- the names of heads of families, as well as gender and age classifications. The 1790 census asked five questions: the number of free white males over 16 years old, free white males under 16, free white females, other, and number of slaves.

The population in 1790 numbered fewer than four million living among the thirteen original states. Nearly one-third of the original 1790 Census returns have been lost or destroyed. Those remaining include Connecticut New York and Massachusetts -- as far as I can tell the only location of any Northrops directly related in these early years.

AMENIA NY

William L. ? Northrop 1850 81 M Farmer $300 born NY 1769

James McInrow 1850 28 M Laborer born Ireland neighbor

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Ely Northrop 1850 age 44 M Laborer $250 born NY

Rebecca 43 born NY

Mary 10 born NY

Charles 9 born NY

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Gould A. Northrop 1850 48 Farmer born NY

Mary 53 born NY

Clinton 25 Laborer born NY

Hannah 20 born NY

Paulina 16 born NY

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Benjamin Northrop 74 farmer 9000 born NY

Amy 76 born NY

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seneca Northroop 40 Farmer born NY

Amanda 41 born NY

Morgan Laborer 16 born NY

Homer 13 born NY

Mary 11 born NY

Amy 8 born NY

Everitt 6 born NY

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Joh n L Northroop Farmer 70 2500 born NY

PAtty 66 born NY

Charles E 10 born NY

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Amos H. Northroop 39 Laborer born NY

Taminia

Adaline

Jane E

Caroline

Cornelia A

James

Eunice

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Enos Northroop

Eliza

Caroline

Abner

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1790 Census

marriage woodbridge CT Anor Ives & Rachel Wilimot -- both of Bethany June 15, 1763. Could Rachel Ives have been their daughter?

As of March 2008, no online census available for 1830, 1840 or 1850.

This is the woodville section of Washington, CT. This was the area where "Gerry" Geerrit Northrop lived.
It's possible this is the area where Amos lived as a young man and perhaps the area he lived at the end
of his life.

Here is an Elijah Northrop who was a carpenter. Is he related?

SCRIBE-RULE and SQUARE-RULE
systems used by timber frame carpenters
by Peter Sinclair & Bob Hedges

There are very few timber frame barns with dates of construction carved in the timbers but there are a number of features in the framing of barns that help in dating them. One of these is evidence of scribe rule and square-rule.

Hudson Valley carpenters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries followed a scribe-rule system based on early European carpentry. In this system the major timbers of the frame were brought together, the cuts to be made scribed with an awl and the joints fit individually. The columns, braces and beams were marked with marriage-marks, matching numbers and symbols that allowed the carpenter to correctly reassemble the timbers later.

Roman numerals, in which each line was cut with two opposing cuts of a straight-chisel, are the most frequently found marriage-marks in the Hudson Valley. In Ulster County and northern New Jersey cup-marks, cut with a gouge-chisel, have been found on some Dutch barns dating before the American Revolution (1776) but Roman numerals are the type most used to match timbers.

In Dutchess, Columbia and some northern Counties of New York, marriage-marks are frequently cut with a race-knife and race-knife-compass.

Square-rule is a system that may have originated in New England in the late eighteenth century. Its first publIc use in Pine Plains, Dutchess County, in 1815, was described as a new wonder. The carpenter, Elijah B. Northrop, prepared his timbers in the forest and cut his mortises and tenons there, without physically matching them, side-by-side.

"...without 'Scribing' as it had hitherto done...Doubts as to the fitting & coming together in all its parts in the frame were general, almost universal, But like the temple of Solomon the timber felled in the forest were nicely adjusted in mortise & tenon and went together in the frame Not However without the sound of Ax or hammers."
Eventually square-rule would replace scribe-rule as the method used in laying out timber frames in the Hudson Valley. By 1830 even the conservative Dutch-American carpenters of Ulster County had adopted square-rule but in Pennsylvania some German-American carpenters were practicing their scribe-rule traditions into the late nineteenth century.

Evidence of square-rule joining can be seen in the lack of marriage marks and in the frequent diminishing of timbers at the tenon. Hewn timbers have irregular surfaces and dimensions. Square-rule is based on the idea that a perfect timber lies within the rough hewn one and so the beam is diminished to that perfect dimension at the joint. Mortises and tenons of beams and braces are made uniform and interchangeable. Over-all square-rule saved time.

The American scribe-rule traditions, whether Dutch, English, French or German in origin, were all oral traditions and forgotten when square-rule was adopted. The survival of French and German scribe-rule carpentry in Europe and its recent exchange of information through the Timber Framers Guild of North America has added to the understanding of our lost Dutch-American traditions here.

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the following are from the website

http://www.familyorigins.com/users/b/r/o/Christine-E-Brodnax-1/FAMO1-0001/d1204.htm

Abiah Northrup(1) was born on 16 Apr 1770 in FAIRFIELD CO., Connecticut. She died WFT Est. 1798-1864. Parents: Isaiah Northrop and Mary Hubbell.
She was married to Samuel Waldo about 1792 in Chatham, Columbia, NEW YORK--+ OR

Abiah Northrup(1) was born in 1772 in FAIRFIELD CO., Connecticut. She died on 14 Jul 1865 in Chatham, Columbia Co, New York. Parents: Isaiah Northrop and Mary Hubbell.
She was married to Samuel Waldo about 1792 in Chatham, Columbia, NEW YORK--+ OR -. Children were: Fanny Waldo, Hannah Waldo, Sarah Waldo, Achsah E. Waldo.

from http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/town/pineplains/Surnames.html

SURNAMES OF EARLY PINE PLAINS
RESIDENTS
Updated 3/25/01

The following is a list of Surnames that are listed in the book "History of Little Nine Partners of Northeast Precinct and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess County 1897" by Isaac Huntting. These are some of the families that were in Pine Plains and involved in it's history in one way or another. These names may or may not be in alphabetic order. I will be adding information on these names over time. Keep checking back for new additions. Please be advised that there may be errors in Mr. Huntting's facts.

Allerton, Baldwin, Barton, Bostwick, Bowman, Bryan, Burnap, Barlow, Barringer, Bockee, Carman, Case, Chamberlin, Cole, Colver, Corbin, Culver, Couch, Conklin, Davis, Downing, Dibblee, Denton, Deuel, Dibble, Elmendorph, Engleekee, Eno, Finch, Frazier, Gamble, Gray, Graham, Ham, Harris, Hartwell, Holbrook, Hammond, Hoad, Hicks, Hoffman, Hedges, Huestead, Husted, Hedding, Huntting, Hiserodt-Hoysradt, Jordan, Johnston, Kenyon, Ketchum-Ketcham, Knickerbocker, Lillie, Lewis, Landon, MacDonald, Massey, Mead, Myers, Northrup, Orr, Phillips, Pinney, Pugsley, Patterson, Pulver, Peck, Righter, Reynolds, Rudd, Rowe, Stewart, Stevenson, Smith, Spencer, Sayre, Sheldon, Strever, Turk, Turner, Tripp, Tallmadge, Thompson, Van Alstyne, Van Ranst, Winans, Wilber-Wilbur, Wooden, Young.

COUCH, John, was the first of the name here; he came from New Milford. His wife was Rhoda Bennett. He was a tailor. Their children were Harriet, Clara, Joanna, Sally, Charles, John, Morse. Harriet married Justus Boothe; Clara married James Lillie, Esq.; Joanna married Elijah B. Northrop; Sally married Leonard Husted, son of Peter; Charles married Polly Husted, daughter of Peter and Polly Husted. John was a physician, practiced in Amenia, and later at Great Barrington, Mass., where he deceased. Nearly all the above had children, who later married, and thus continued the lineage of John Couch the tailor and his wife Rhoda Bennett.

NORTHRUP, Elijah B., was son of George and Anna Booth, of Newtown, Conn., son of Captain Jonathan and Ruth Booth, of Old Milford, Conn., son of Lieut. John and Mary Porter, of Milford, son of Jeremiah, of Milford, son of Joseph from Yorkshire, England, one of the first settlers in Milford in 1639. George Northrup, father of Elijah B., married 1st Mary Kimberly in 1782, and had three children, Jonathan, Anna and Phebe. He married 2d, Anna Booth, daughter of Richard Booth. They had children, Booth, Elijah Booth, Ziba, Nicholas, Phebe and Lucy A. Parents and children all born in Newtown, Conn. Elijah B. came to Pine Plains in 1815, probably at the suggestion of Justus Booth, who was one of the Newtown or Milford Booths. Mr. Northrup was a carpenter and on his coming engaged to build the "Union meeting house." Possibly he came for that purpose. He introduced the system of "the square rule" in framing. The timbers for the frame of the church were donated in the trees which were felled and hewn in the forest and framed where they had fallen, after the manner of building Solomon's temple It was a new departure in carpenter work, and when the sticks from the sundry forests were brought together, the several pieces fitted in their respective places according to the design of master mechanic Northrup. He completed the building, and the finish and work inside were deemed worthy of great praise. Soon after his coming here he married Joanna Couch, a daughter of John Couch and Rhoda Bennett, who was a sister to the wife of Justus Booth. Their children, all born in Pine Plains and in the order named, were Jane E., Lucy Ann, Harriet, Frances, Charles Booth and Mary Emma. These lived to over adult age. Three infants were buried in Pine Plains. Mr. Northrup and all his family were upright, consistent Christians, members of the Presbyterian church society which was organized in 1837 in the meeting house he had built, and he was its first ruling elder which office he held many years. This family and the other branches of the Couch family were great supports to Mr. Sayre in the early years of his ministry here. They were not wealthy but workers and true, and ever had a warm side for their pastor. Mr. Northrup was a very busy man in his own business, never idle. His children were industrious, honorable and self supporting. The family lived in the now Charles Wilber cottage which Mr. Northrup originally built, and has since been repaired. They left Pine Plains many years since, some of the children married and settled in Newark, N.J., where possibly some descendants are now living. Mr. Northrup moved there and deceased June 29, 1860, aged 69. He was buried in Bridgeport, Conn. He was of small stature, about 5 ft. 7, sanguine, nervous temperament, quick in action and of great endurance, a sort of steel wire constitution, yet too light in structure to stand the continuous strain.

History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: From the First Indian ... - Google Books Result

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Many northrops

1788 Brookfield formerly newbury parish became town of Brookfield

The Governor and company granted a Patent to Milford, dated May 22, 1713. The names of the Northrups, attached to the Patent (the original of which is in the handwriting of Jonathan Law, Esq., afterward Governor of Connecticut) in the order in which they signed, are as follows: John, son of Jeremiah; Zophar and Jeremiah, sons of Joseph; Jeremiah, Jr.; Joseph, James and Moses, sons of Joseph, Jr.; Amos and Joel, sons of Samuel; Daniel and William, sons of the first Joseph.

The Colonists of Milford lived at a period when there was danger from hostile Indians. Their settlement was made shortly after the Pequot War. Although they purchased their lands of the tribes in possession, and sought their friendship, yet they soon saw indications of hostility, and as a
protection built a palisade of logs enclosing a mile square, within which they had their dwellings.

The Indians became hostile in 1645-6, and guards were kept day and night. They went to church, carrying their rifles with them. The Indians were again troublesome in 1653. In 1700 there was much danger. It was a time of general alarm throughout the country for four or five years. The colonists of New Haven and Milford had all along purchased from the Indians the lands they settled upon, and in every way treated the Indians kindly and fairly, but the hostility of these sons of the forest was awakened by their fears of the growing numbers and power of the whites, and the dawning consciousness that sooner or later they would inevitably be driven from their ancient homes. If they could have written history, it would go far to justify their hostility.