Population of the United States |
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State |
1775 |
1790 |
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White |
Black |
(est.) |
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 |
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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 York: Cambridge 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.