•SO Mr Harvey an the Increase of the Population of the 
four rates of increase belonging to the class of persons of sixteen 
and under twenty-six, in the second and third divisions, is not 
unworthy of attention. All the male increments, excepting the 
first, in the second division of the Table, are less than their cor- 
responding female increments ; and in the third division, the fe- 
male increments in every case exceed their corresponding male 
increments. These rates of increase exhibit a greater unifor- 
mity than we should at first be led to expect. 
The increments of the ages contained in the preceding Table, 
were deduced from the aggregate population of all the states 
and territories, during the several periods indicated in it. In 
the next place, therefore, we shall proceed to the consideration 
of the various increments which each age and sex has received, 
in every individual State ; and for this purpose the following 
Table has been computed, to illustrate the period comprised 
between 1790 and 1800. 
States & Territories. 
Free white 
Males under 
16 years. 
Free white 
Males of 16 
years and 
upwards. 
Free white 
Females of 
all ages. 
w 
r Maine, 
62.7 
49.9 
58.0 
eJ 
New Hampshire, 
30.8 
26.3 
30.8 
<72 
Massachusets, 
10.2 
14.2 
10.8 
JC 
Rhode Island, 
3.2 
3.4 
2.8 
IS 
o 
Connecticut, 
5.4 
5.5 
5.2 
fc 
- Vermont, ; 
85.7 
68.7 
84.1 
c/5 
o 
r New York, 
84.8 
70.5 
76.0 
Is 
New Jersey, 
20.1 
8.0 
14.8 
C/2 
<U * 
Pennsylvania, 
39.6 
37.3 
37.9 
Delaware, 
4.5 
4.8 
10.9 
s 
_ Ohio, 
26.6 
82.2 
34.0 
CO | 
<■ Maryland, 
7.7 
7.5 
6.8 
- 
I Virginia, 
14.4 
16.5 
17.3 
1 
| North Carolina, 
16.4 
16.4 
18.1 
i South Carolina* 
40.2 
33.1 
42.6 
1 
Georgia, 
101.6 
95.8 
87.6 
w 1 
^ Kentucky, 
200.9 
181.4 
197.1 
The irregularity in these increments is very remarkable. In 
three of the northern states,- viz. Maine, New Hampshire, 
and Vermont; three also of the middle states, viz. New York, 
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; and likewise in four of the 
southern states, namely Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia, 
and Kentucky, — the free male increments under 16 years of 
