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many that were so
curious, simple, or fantastically compounded as to be later deemed
undignified have undergone change or disappeared.[3]
Upon this basis the nationality of the white population was distributed

among the States in accordance with Table A printed on pages 26-27.
Three of the original States are not represented in this table: New
Jersey, Delaware, and Georgia. The schedules of the First Census for
those States were not preserved. The two new States of Kentucky and
Tennessee are also missing from the list. Estimates, however, have
been made for these missing States.
For Delaware, the schedules of the Second Census, 1800, survived. As
there was little growth and very little change in the composition of the
population during this decade, the Census Bureau used the later figures
as a basis for calculating the population in 1790. Of three of the
missing Southern States the report says: "The composition of the white
population of Georgia, Kentucky, and of the district subsequently
erected into the State of Tennessee is also unknown; but in view of the
fact that Georgia was a distinctly English colony, and that Tennessee
and Kentucky were settled largely from Virginia and North Carolina,
the application of the North Carolina proportions to the white
population of these three results in what is doubtless an approximation
of the actual distribution."
TABLE A[4]
DISTRIBUTION OF THE WHITE POPULATION, 1790, IN EACH
STATE, ACCORDING TO NATIONALITY AS INDICATED BY
NAMES OF HEADS OF FAMILIES
Note: The first column under each State gives the number of persons;
the second, the percentage. The asterisk indicates less than one-tenth of
one per cent.
-------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+--------------
NATIONALITY | MAINE | NEW HAMPSHIRE| VERMONT |
MASSACHUSETTS
-------------+-------+-----+--------+-----+-------+-----+--------+----- All | | |
| | | | | Nationalities| 96,107|100.0| 141,112|100.0| 85,072|100.0|
373,187|100.0 | | | | | | | | English | 89,515| 93.1| 132,726| 94.1| 81,149|
95.4| 354,528| 95.0 Scotch | 4,154| 4.3| 6,648| 4.7| 2,562| 3.0| 13,435|
3.6 Irish | 1,334| 1.4| 1,346| 1.0| 597| 0.7| 3,732| 1.0 Dutch | 279| 0.3|

153| 0.1| 428| 0.5| 373| 0.1 French | 115| 0.1| 142| 0.1| 153| 0.2| 746| 0.2
German | 436| 0.5| | | 35| *| 75| * Hebrew | 44| *| | | | | 67| * All others |
230| 0.2| 97| 0.1| 148| 0.2| 231| *
-------------+-------+-----+--------+-----+-------+-----+--------+-----
-------------+-------------+--------------+--------------+--------------
NATIONALITY | RHODE ISLAND| CONNECTICUT | NEW YORK
| PENNSYLVANIA
-------------+-------+-----+--------+-----+--------+-----+--------+----- All | | |
| | | | | Nationalities| 64,670|100.0| 232,236|100.0| 314,366|100.0|
423,373|100.0 | | | | | | | | English | 62,079| 96.0| 223,437| 96.2| 245,901|
78.2| 249,656| 59.0 Scotch | 1,976| 3.1| 6,425| 2.8| 10,034| 3.2| 49,567|
11.7 Irish | 459| 0.7| 1,589 | 0.7| 2,525| 0.8| 8,614| 2.0 Dutch | 19| *| 258
| 0.1| 50,600| 16.1| 2,623| 0.6 French | 88| 0.1| 512| 0.2| 2,424| 0.8|
2,341| 0.6 German | 33| 0.1| 4| *| 1,103| 0.4| 110,357| 26.1 Hebrew | 9| *|
5| *| 385| 0.1| 21| * All others | 7| *| 6| *| 1,394| 0.4| 194| *
-------------+-------+-----+--------+-----+--------+-----+--------+-----
-------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------
NATIONALITY | MARYLAND | VIRGINIA |NORTH
CAROLINA|SOUTH CAROLINA
-------------+--------+-----+--------+-----+--------+-----+--------+----- All | |
| | | | | | Nationalities| 208,649|100.0| 442,117|100.0| 289,181|100.0|
140,178|100.0 | | | | | | | | English | 175,265| 84.0| 375,799| 85.0| 240,309|
83.1| 115,480| 82.4 Scotch | 13,562| 6.5| 31,391| 7.1| 32,388| 11.2|
16,447| 11.7 Irish | 5,008| 2.4| 8,842| 2.0| 6,651| 2.3| 3,576| 2.6 Dutch |
209| 0.1| 884| 0.2| 578| 0.2| 219| 0.2 French | 1,460| 0.7| 2,653| 0.6| 868|
0.3| 1,882| 1.8 German | 12,310| 5.9| 21,664| 4.9| 8,097| 2.8| 2,343| 1.7
Hebrew | 626| 0.3| | | 1| *| 85| * All others | 209| 0.1| 884| 0.2| 289| 0.1|
146| 0.1
-------------+--------+-----+--------+-----+--------+-----+--------+-----
TABLE B
COMPUTED DISTRIBUTION OF WHITE POPULATION, 1790,
ACCORDING TO NATIONALITY, IN EACH STATE FOR WHICH
SCHEDULES ARE MISSING

--------------+-----------------+-----------------+----------------
NATIONALITY | NEW JERSEY | DELAWARE | GEORGIA
--------------+---------+-------+---------+-------+---------+------ All | | | | | |
Nationalities | 169,954 | 100.0 | 46,310 | 100.0 | 52,886 | 100.0 | | | | | |
English | 98,620 | 58.0 | 39,966 | 86.3 | 43,948 | 83.1 Scotch | 13,156 |
7.7 | 3,473 | 7.5 | 5,923 | 11.2 Irish | 12,099 | 7.1 | 1,806 | 3.9 | 1,216 |
2.3 Dutch | 21,581 | 12.7 | 463 | 1.0 | 106 | 0.2 French | 3,565 | 2.1 | 232 |
0.5 | 159 | 0.3 German | 15,678 | 9.2 | 185 | 0.4 | 1,481 | 2.8 All others[A]
| 5,255 | 3.1 | 185 | 0.4 | 53 | 0.1
--------------+---------+-------+---------+-------+---------+------
--------------+-----------------+---------------- NATIONALITY |
KENTUCKY | TENNESSEE
--------------+---------+-------+---------+------ All | | | | Nationalities |
61,133 | 100.0 | 31,918 | 100.0 | | | | English | 50,802 | 83.1 | 26,519 |
83.1 Scotch | 6,847 |