CITY OF LONDONDERRY. 
In 1623, according to the same authority, there were 109 families in Derry, and in 
1626, the same number, whereof 5 were soldiers, the company in garrison there subject to be 
removed. 
Archbishop King, in 1690, states the whole of the population of the parish, (including, of 
course, the Donegal part,) at about 700. 
Beaufort and Seward, in the same year, 1792, give the population at about 10,000, which 
is evidently too high a statement. 
The earliest general census of Ireland was that of 1800, in which Derry is omitted, “no 
“ returns having been received from that city.” 
In 1 814, it appears from a “ Report of the Deputation of the Irish Society,” that the popu¬ 
lation amounted, at that time, to 14,087 persons. 
The first census which gives any registered returns is that compiled in 1821, by Mr. 
William Shaw Mason, which gives 9313 as the number of the inhabitants of the city. 
The decennary census of 1831 is the next, which gives for the city 10,130, or, including 
the suburbs, 19,620. The results of these official reports show that the estimate of Beaufort and 
Seward was too high. 
The details of each decennary census are as follows :— 
