Estimates of Population in the American Colonies From the Report of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting Held in Worcester, October 21, 1887 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Estimates of Population in the American Colonies: From the Report of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting Held in Worcester, October 21, 1887

For the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plan tations, the conditions of our problem are simpler than in other parts of the field. The aptness which this govern ment developed for the taking of censuses, - no less than seven being ordered within seventy-five years, -and the compactness of the territory to be surveyed, have resulted in furnishing comparatively abundant information while the regularity of growth is, also specially noticeable.

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