This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...table presents the population of the 47 cities in the area enumerated in 1790 which had in 1900 a population of 50,000 or more, in comparison with the population of the same places at the First Census, so far as the earlier figures are obtainable. Of these 47 cities, 39 were located in the New England and Middle states and 8 in the Southern states. The population in 1790 of 32 of these cities can be presented approximately; 5 did not exist even as independent townships in 1790, but were formed later from parts of other townships and subsequently became cities; 9 appear not to have had any population at the date of the First Census. Cities having a population of 50,000 or over in 1900 in area covered by enumeration of 1790, by states. Maine: Portland J New Hampshire: Manchester Massachusetts: Fall River New Bedford.. Lawrence Lynn Springfield. J? Cambridge Lowell Somerville Boston Worcester Rhode I si ami: Providence Connecticut: Bridgeport Hartford.... Jf. New Haven New York: Albany Buffalo New York Rochester Utica Syracuse Troy New Jersey: Camden Newark Hoboken Jersey City Trenton Paterson Elizabeth town Pennsylvania: Allegheny Pittsburg Reading, Harrisburg Erie Be ran ton Wilkes-Barre Philadelphia Delaware: Wilmington Maryland: Baltimore Virginia: Richmond South Carolina: Charleston Georgia: Savannah Atlanta Kentucky: Louisville Tennessee: Nashville Memphis 1 Not returned separately. 1 Part of Chelmsford, total population 1.144. 1 Part of Charlestown, total population 1,583. Original city area only. - Formed in 1821 of parts from Fairfield and Stafford. 1 Morse's Gazetteer. 'Estimated. Town and precincts. St. Phillips and St. Michael parishes. It must not be overlooked, in studying tables of this character, that the results are seldom entirely compar...