82,20o inhabitants, being 34 thoufandth 



A. D. 1782. 721 



efpecially fold at monftrous prices, in confequcnce of tlie very crowded 

 ftate of the towns, which had almoft no back country, acknowleging the 

 Britifh government, to fupply them. 



An eftimate was made, by order of the cougrefs, of the numbers of 

 inhabitants in the United ftates, in order to proportion the afTeflments 

 upon each ftate, which was as follows. 

 New Hampftiire 



parts of the whole. 

 Maflachufets bay 

 Rhode ifland 

 Conne<Sicut 

 New York 

 New Jerfey 

 Pennfylvania 

 Delaware 

 Maryland 

 Virginia 

 North Carolina 

 South Carolina 

 Georgia 



350,000 



50,400 



206,000 



200,000 



130,000 



320,000 



35. coo 



220,700 



400,000 



200,000 



170,000 



25,000 



147 



21 



86 

 84 

 54- 



15 

 92 



167 



84 



71 

 I r 



Total of inhabitants ofl 



all ages, colours, and [-2,389,300 * - - 1,000 



conditions, J 



December 23" — The harveft having been dreadfully deficient this 

 year, the parliament allowed the importation of all kinds of grain, upon 

 payment of low duties, which was to continue till the 25'''of Auguft 

 1783 in England, and till the 25'-' of September 1783 in Scotland. 

 [23 Geo. Ill, c. I.] 



A view of the increafe of the Scottilh herring fiflicry from the year 

 1 75 I to the year 1776, has already been given ; and the decline of it 

 after that year has alio been noticed [pp. 395, 633.) The following 

 view of its declining ftate during the war, and alio of the exportation ot 



• Thij eftimate was cenfured as too high by 

 Lord Sheffield, who obfcrvcs, that the bell ac- 

 counts Hate the number of whites in the American 

 ftates as not exceeding 1,700.000 [^Ceii/ltJfralioKi 

 OH tin commerce oj America^ p. 2^i),Jixlh eJ-^ He 

 docs not fay any tliiii<j of l!ic nu:nbcr of negro 

 (laves: but if tlic cAiinatcd proportion of jo ne- 

 groes to 1 1 wliites be nearly true, it makes the 

 total number in the eftimate corrcfpond very well 

 with that number of whites. Mr. Coxe (hows, 

 apparently upon good ground*, that the eftimate 



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wau rather under, tiiao above, the truth: and 

 Mr. Jeffi iTon makes !t CKCCtdingly prob.ible, that 

 the number in Vir^nnia this year was $67,614, of 

 whom 170,76* were flarci. Succeedin); enumcra* 

 tiooi, mure accurately taken, Ihow, th" •' - "jm- 

 bcrs have increafcd in all the dales ■ '^i- 



ing ni]>idity. [^^ee Ccxr'i yirw ■•' • . ... ", 



pp. 197, z'^:3.~']cff.rjtm'i Xk/o fi. 14J. 



— See alfo Talham'i Pofits.jl .: rt^;- r/ iiilmJ 

 n.n-i^.uioH, p. 36.] 



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