A Century of Population Growth: From the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1700-1900Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966 - 303 Seiten |
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100 WHITE PERSONS added area Area covered area enumerated average number Boston census cent of increase century Charleston colonies Columbia Connecticut continental United COUNTIES AND MINOR COUNTY AND TOWN county-Continued covered in 1900 Cumberland DEALING WITH NAMES Delaware England enumerated in 1790 estimate fami foreign born Franklin Georgia Hampshire Hartford county HEADS OF FAMILIES included Indian inhabitants Jersey John Kentucky LEAST 100 WHITE Maine Maryland Massachusetts merated Middlesex MINOR CIVIL DIVISIONS Montgomery NAMES REPRESENTED nation native parentage native white negroes North NUMBER OF FAMILIES Number of members number of persons number of slaves number of white original area Pennsylvania period Philadelphia POPULATION IN 1790 proportion reported returns Rhode Island Richmond river Rockingham county Salem schedules Scotch shown slaveholding families South Carolina Southern Southwest Territory TABLE 111.-NOMENCLATURE Tennessee tion Total number total population Vermont Virginia Washington county Weekly West white children white females white population Worcester county York
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Seite 11 - On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications...
Seite 9 - In the United States of America, where the means of subsistence have been more ample, the manners of the people more pure, and consequently the checks to early marriages fewer, than in any of the modern states of Europe, the population has been found to double itself in twenty-five years.
Seite 36 - If any citizen of the United States, or other person not being an Indian, shall attempt to settle on any of the lands allotted to the Wyandot and Delaware nations in this treaty, except on the lands reserved to the United States in the preceding article, such person shall forfeit the protection of the United States, and the Indians may punish him as they please.
Seite 149 - Confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation; namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens, and inhabitants of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes, in each state.
Seite 26 - And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every town within this province, having the number of fifty householders or upwards, shall be constantly provided of a schoolmaster to teach children and youth to read and write...
Seite 82 - At the census of 1850, when the classification by nativity was introduced, the white population of 12 Southern states — Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas — included in the aggregate less than 4 per cent who were foreign born. The proportion of foreign born in this group of states increased but little during the half century, and even at the census of 1900 the white population was composed almost...
Seite 12 - Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to the State of Virginia to reconsider their late act of assembly for opening their land office; and that It be recommended to the said State, and all other States similarly circumstanced, to forbear settling or issuing warrants for unappropriated lands, or granting the same during the continuance of the present war.
Seite 85 - Their numbers are not augmented by foreign emigrants ; yet, from their circumscribed limits, compact situation, and natural population, they are filling the western parts of the state of New York, and the country on the Ohio, with their own surplusage.
Seite 37 - RANDOLPH'S propositions be postponed, in order to consider the following, " that in order to ascertain the alterations that may happen in the population and wealth of the several States, a census shall be taken of the free white inhabitants, and three-fifths of those of other descriptions on the first year after this government shall have been adopted, and every year thereafter ; and that the representation be regulated accordingly.
Seite 53 - I do not state this inconsiderately. At the same ratio of increase which we have maintained, on an average, from our first national census, in 1790, until that of 1860, we should in 1900 have a population of 103,208,415. And why may we not continue that ratio far beyond that period? Our abundant room, our broad national homestead, is our ample resource.