e3 POPULATION-1647. GOV. STUYVESANT TO THE STATES GENERAL. [Hol. Doe. XI.] I need not intrude on your Illustrious High Mightinesses with a long narrative as to the low condition in which I found New Netherland on my arrival-the Flattland so stripped of inhabitants that, with the exception of the three English Villages of Hemstede, New Flushing & Gravesend, 50 Bouweries and Plantations could not be enumerated; and there could not be made out in the whole Province, 250, or at farthest 300 men capable of bearing arms. 1673. [Vanderkemp Transl. of Dutch Rec. Vol. XXII.J "They and as many of the Dutch Nation as are yet residing under this Government is calculated to amount, Women and children included, to about Six thousand." (6.000). Address of the Burgomasters &c to Bencks and Evertsen. AN ACCOUNT of the Number of Inhabitants in ye Severall Counties of ye Province of New Yorke taken by the High Sheriffes and Justices of the Peace each respective County; as p order of His Excell. the Earl of Bellomont Governr &c. anno 1698 POPULATION OF ALBANY COUNTY & INDIANS 1689-1698 [Lond. Doc. XI.] In pursuance of the Order from his Excell. Col. Benj Fletcher, Capt. Gen11 & Govern' in Chief dated the 3rd day of May 1697, to make a perfect reckoning of the Inhabitants of the City & County of Albany and how many families & particular persons in the said Citty and County are departed from the beginning of ye Warr, how many persons killed & carried away, & of what number ye Five Nations and River Indians there were, & how much they since are lessened, so that wee find that the Inhabitants of the Citty & County of Albany did consist: 1320 In the beginning of ye War 2800 Indians & now The Christians departed from the Citty & County of Albany since the beginning of ye Warr Men. Women. Children. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF POPULATION IN THE PROVINCE NEW YORK. 1705–17123d7dHI PUN OF Of these Countys I have as yet no lists, nor from the Jerseys but hope to be able to send it your Lordsps by the next from Connecticut. I have so imperfect an account, that I am ashamed to send it but will endeavour to get a more perfect une. In the five Countys whereof I have procured lists, the numbers were composed as followeth, In the year Christians L In 1714 [Note.-In 1700 Population of Ulster Co. was 2005 of which 324 were Slaves. 2120 of which 433 were Slaves. The Population of Dutchess Co. in 1714, was 445 Souls, of whom 29 were Slaves.] GOV. HUNTER TO THE BOARD OF TRADE, APRIL; 1716. [Lond. Doc. XX.J The number of the Militia of this Province by my last account is 5060. I cannot say that the inhabitants increase in that proportion (at least) as they do in the neighbouring provinces where the purchases of land are easier had, than with us, great numbers of the younger sort leave Long Island yearly to plant in the Jerseys & Pensylvania. SAME TO THE SAME. AUGUST, 1720. [Lond. Doc. XXI.] Query, what is the number of the Militia? AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILIES OF GERMANS SETTLED ON HUDSON'S RIVER IN THE |