The 1790 law operated in a time when women did not have equality under the law. Therefore, if the father of the child had never been a citizen of the US, hadn’t even lived in it, then the child could not be a US citizen.
However, note that if the father HAD been a resident citizen, and the MOTHER had not been, that the law would permit that child to be considered a “natural born citizen.”
Therefore, 2 citizen parents was not a requirement. This 1790 law indicates that one citizen parent would be acceptable.
It was an unavoidable consequence of the law. Marriage always naturalized a foreign wife. Both we and England used this principle.
In other words, prior to 1922, it wasn't POSSIBLE to have dual national parents.