Population of the United States

State

1775

1790

White

Black

(est.)
Total

White

Black

Total

Connecticut (5)

198,076

5,279

203,355

232,374

5,572

237,946

Delaware (12)

39,550

2,157

41,707

46,310

12,786

59,096

Georgia (13)

14,981

12,484

27,465

52,886

29.662

82,548

Kentucky          1792

61,133

12,544

73,677

Maine*            1821       .         

45,625

471

46,096

96.002

538

96,540

Maryland (6)

134,844

65,856

200,700

208,649

111,079

319,728

Massachusetts* (2)

276,125

4,595

280,720*

373,324

5,463

378,787  (4)

New Hampshire (10)

80,644

656

81,300

141,097

788

141,885

New Jersey (9)

125,781

9,032

134,813

169,954

14,185

184,139

New York** (7)

163,560

22,656

186,216**

314,142

25,978

340,120

North Carolina  (4)

149,930

81,780

231,710

288,204

105,547

393,751  (3)

Pennsylvania  (3)

275,397

6,769

282,166

424,099

10,274

434,373  (2)

Rhode Island  (11)

56,366

3,796

60,162

64,470

4,355

68,825

South Carolina  (8)

57,652

88,334

145,986

140,178

108,895

249,073

Tennessee        1796

940

235

1,175

31,913

3,778

35,691

Vermont**      1791

17,331

53

17,384

85,154

271

85,425

Virginia (1)

304,807

220,435

525,242

391,524

300,213

691,737 (1) .

TOTAL

1,941,609

524,588

2,466,197

3,172,006

757,208

3,929,214

SOURCES: Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 (CD-ROM; New YorkCambridge University Press, 1997) 2: 1168-71; United States Census Office, Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States (Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine, 1791); R.C. Simmons, The American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence (New York, 1976), 175-77; Michael A. Bellesiles, Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993) 280-83.