Report to the committee of the City Council appointed to obtain the census of Boston for the year 1845 : embracing collateral facts and statistical researches, illustrating the history and condition of the population, and their means of progress and prosperity / by Lemuel Shattuck.

  • Shattuck, Lemuel, 1793-1859.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Report to the committee of the City Council appointed to obtain the census of Boston for the year 1845 : embracing collateral facts and statistical researches, illustrating the history and condition of the population, and their means of progress and prosperity / by Lemuel Shattuck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    (*) I'ol i. Date. Number. 1687 J.330 L728 3,000 I 733 3,500 1735 3, (537 1738 3,395 1740 3,043 1711 2,972 1752 2.789 177s 2,248 17S1 2,260 178 1 3,174 Population. Date. 1 680 L690 1700 1710 1720 L730 171H 175(1 1760 1770 1780 White. 11.900 16,626 14,190 1 1,390 14,672 Colored. Total. 1,100 1,374 1,5 11 1,241 848 4,500 7,000 6.700 9,000 11,000 13.000 17,00(1 15,731 15,631 15,520 10,000 From this statement it appears that the population of Bos- ton remained nearly stationary for many years. It has been said that the new dwelling houses erected during this time, scarcely averaged one a year. The native inhabitants pour- ed out their treasure and their blood so liberally in the vari- ous Indian, French, and Spanish wars, in which the colonies were engaged, at various times prior to 1775, and especially during the revolutionary war, as materially to check the pros- perity and growth of the town. After the peace of 1783, the population of Boston began gradually to increase. The number of dwelling houses, from actual enumeration, was 2,178 in 1784; 2,235 in 1789; 2,390 in 1791; and 2,493 in 1794 ; not as many however as were said to have been in the town 70 years before. The houses in 1790, may be estimated at 2,300, and in 1800 at 3,000. From the account in 1789, which I have before me, it appears that there were North of Mill Creek, now Blaokstone street, Between State, Court, Sudbury, and Black- stone streets, ... • Between Sudbury, Tremont, Park, and Bea- con streets, ...... Houses. 781 336 241 Stores. 49 112 79 Estimated Population. 5,848 2,688 1,928