POPULATION AND GROWTH. 1 5 



Of the Ministers of the Gospel who have attained the degree of Doc- 

 tor of Divinity, perhaps not fewer than one hundred (in Southold town 

 alone not fewer than thirty), could be named who were or are themselves 

 natives or residents, or the descendants of natives or residents of our 

 county. More than one of these were severally the first Professors of Di- 

 vinity in the great theological seminaries of our country, like Henry White, 

 of the Union Theological Seminary of New York city, and Abijah Wines, ■ 

 of the Bangor Theological Seminary, Maine. 



What a multitude of great merchants has Suffolk county produced, 

 like Christopher R. Robert, born near Moriches, the founder of Robert 

 College near Constantinople in Turkey! 



What sea or port of the globe bears not witness to the science, skill 

 and courage of our eminent shipmasters ? 



It is the growth of population in our county that has been effective 

 in producing these men and hundreds upon hundreds more of great emi- 

 nence and worth. 



It is the character of the population that Suffolk county has possessed 

 and has freely given to our whole country and to the world of mankind, 

 that is the greatest honor of the east end of Long Island. 



A population af virtue, industry and piety grows in number as well as 

 in wealth and comfort; for " godliness is profitable unto all things." The 

 increase, as shown by the United States census firom 1790 to 1880 inclu- 

 sive, ranges in our county from some two thousand to seven thousand in 

 each ten years. Thus the population in 1790 was equal to 16,440 per- 

 sons; in 1800, 19,735; in 1810, 21,113; i^ 1820, 23,930; in 1830, 26,780; 

 in 1840, 32,469; in 1850, 36,922; in i860, 43,275; in 1870, 46,924; in 

 •1880, 53,888. 



It is proper at this point gratefully to acknowledge the courtesy of 

 the Hon. C. W. Seaton, the Superintendent of the United States census, 

 for the foregoing figures of each census from 1790 to 1880. 



To fames H. Wardje, Esq., a native of Suffolk county, a citizen of 

 the village of Riverhead, who is the Superintendent of the Agricultural De- 

 partment of the United States census, I am very greatly indebted for an 

 elaborate and valuable table, showing the population of the county by its 

 several towns, according to every United States census from 1790 to 1880 

 in decades, and also in half decades partly from other sources from 1820 

 to 1880. This table is as follows: 



