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POPULATION—1647.
GOV. STUYVESANT TO THE STATES GENERAL.
[ Hoi. Doc. XI. ]
I need not intrude on your Illustrious High Mightinesses with a long narrative as to the low con-dition in which I found New Netherland on my. arrival—theFlattland so stripped of inhabitants thatwith the exception of the three English Villages of Hemstede, New Flushing & Gravesend, 50 Bouw-eries and Plantations could not be enumerated; and there could not be made out in the whole Pro-vince, 250, or at farthest 300 men capable of bearing arms.
1673.
[ Vancterkemp Transl. of Dutch Rec. Vol. XXII. ]
“ They and as many of the Dutch nation as are yet residing under this Government is calculatedto amount, Women and children included, to about Six thousand.” (6.000). Address of the Burgo-masters fyc to Bencks and Evertsen.
AN ACCOUNT of the NumberSheriffs and Justices
of Inhabitants in ye Severall Counties of yeof the Peace in each respective County j as p
•e of New Yorke taken by the High
Governr &c. anno 1698
XI.]
Men.
Women.
Children.
Negros
In ye County & Citty of Albany .
Jn ye County of Ulster St Dutchesse County.
In the City & County of New York ..
In Richmond County als Staten Island .
In ye County of West Chester .
In Suffolk County within Nassau Island ..•
380
248
29
1019
328
316
973
308
1465
270
111
31
1057
208
294
1024
332
1350
803
869
140
2161
118
307
124
1081
651
5066
4677
6154
23
156
19
700
73
146
558
296
199
2170
6154
A true Copy 2170
(signed) BELLOMONT. -- „ , ..
_ 18067 Population
Total.