CITY OF LONDONDERRY. 
This classification has been obtained from the registry list at the custom-house. As the 
emigrants to the United States are not obliged to register with the same exactness similar informa¬ 
tion cannot be procured for them. 
The great majority appears to be in the vigour and energy of youth, seeking a new field for 
exertion and success. If the number above 40 years of age had preponderated there would have 
been cause to fear that they were of broken fortunes, or had already failed in some career at 
home. 
Five-sixths of the number are said to belong to the middle class of farmers, and it is their 
custom to convert into money all their moveable property: if £10 be allowed for each, 50,000 
would appear to be thus abstracted from this country. 
Section 6.—Population. 
As a mere numerical question of increase or decrease, under peculiar circumstances of 
greater or less production, power, or means of subsistence, the statistics of population have ac¬ 
quired great interest from the exertions of Malthus, Sadler, &c. ; but the want of a well digested 
and uniform system of registry for births, deaths, &c., is so generally felt throughout the king¬ 
doms, and especially in Ireland, that but little light can be thrown on it from matter connected 
with Derry. On the other hand, the term is here taken in a much wider sense than is usual, 
comprehending not only the number of the people, but several other considerations indicative 
of their tastes, or descriptive of their habits. 
Number .—The earliest notice on record of the number of the people of Derry, is that of 
Nicholas Pynnar, in 1618-19, who, in describing the city, sets down the population at 102 
families. 
The next is the muster-roll of Sir Thomas Phillips, dated 1622, in which he gives 110 as 
the number of men capable of bearing arms. The roll itself is too curious a document to be her© 
omitted. 
