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SECT. 8. Population. 



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BY an account taken of the population of this county 

 In 1751, it appears at that time to have contained 

 19,270 houfes; by the returns made to government in 

 1791, it appears to have contained 38,351 houfes, fa 

 near twice the former number, that they may be faid to- 

 have doubled within the period of forty years; this 

 gives an inereafe t>f 4,817 houfes for every ten years, 

 fo that if there is added to the laft return, made HI 

 1791, of 38,351 houfes, the inereafe of the laft ten 

 years, it will make the number at prefent 43,168, 

 which, taking the inhabitants at five and one-fourth, 

 or twenty-one for every four houfes, the total popula- 

 tion at prefent will be 226,632, nearly one perfon for 

 an acre and a half throughout the county. The num- 

 ber of men liable to ferve in the militia, from eighteen 

 to forty-five, will alfo form a foundation, from which 

 the number of inhabitants may be calculated j for, if 

 we obtain the number of men liable to ferve in the 

 militia in any parifh, and the exact number of the in- 

 habitants thereof, and that we likewife obtain the total 

 liable to ferve in the county, the proportion between 

 the militia and inhabitants of the parifh, given will be 

 the fame, as between the total liable to ferve in the 

 county, and the total inhabitants of it. Thus, for ex- 

 i i 2 ample, 



