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The 1756 Connecticut Census, officially titled An Account of the Number of Inhabitants as returned in 1756, was a census done in Connecticut Colony around 1756.[1] The census put the population at a total of 130,612.[2][3]
Data
[edit]City | County | Total | Whites | Negroes | Indians |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Middletown | Hartford | 5,664 | 5,446 | 218 | 0 |
Norwich | New-London | 5,540 | 5,317 | 223 | 0 |
New-Haven | New-Haven | 5,085 | 5,085 | 0 | 0 |
Fairfield | Fairfield | 4,455 | 4,195 | 260 | 0 |
Windsor | Hartford | 4,220 | 4,170 | 50 | 0 |
Wallingford | New-Haven | 3,713 | 3,713 | 0 | 0 |
Farmington | Hartford | 3,707 | 3,595 | 112 | 0 |
Stratford | Fairfield | 3,658 | 3,508 | 150 | 0 |
Stonington | New-London | 3,518 | 2,953 | 200 | 365 |
Lebanon | Windham | 3,274 | 3,171 | 103 | 0 |
New-London | New-London | 3,171 | 3,171 | 0 | 0 |
Norwalk | Fairfield | 3,050 | 2,956 | 94 | 0 |
Hartford | Hartford | 3,027 | 2,926 | 101 | 0 |
Lyme | New-London | 2,956 | 2,762 | 100 | 94 |
Woodbury | Litchfield | 2,911 | 2,880 | 31 | 0 |
Groton | New-London | 2,869 | 2,532 | 179 | 158 |
Stanford | Fairfield | 2,768 | 2,648 | 120 | 0 |
Wethersfield | Hartford | 2,483 | 2,374 | 109 | 0 |
Windham | Windham | 2,446 | 2,406 | 40 | 0 |
Guilford | New-Haven | 2,321 | 2,262 | 59 | 0 |
Colchester | Hartford | 2,312 | 2,228 | 84 | 0 |
Symsbury | Hartford | 2,245 | 2,222 | 23 | 0 |
Killingly | Windham | 2,100 | 2,100 | 0 | 0 |
Greenwich | Fairfield | 2,021 | 2,021 | 0 | 0 |
Preston | New-London | 2,018 | 1,940 | 78 | 0 |
East Haddam | Hartford | 1,978 | 1,913 | 65 | 0 |
Saybrook | New-London | 1,931 | 1,898 | 33 | 0 |
Hebron | Hartford | 1,855 | 1,855 | 0 | 0 |
Waterbury | New-Haven | 1,829 | 1,802 | 27 | 0 |
Plainfield | Windham | 1,800 | 1,751 | 49 | 0 |
Branford | New-Haven | 1,800 | 1,694 | 106 | 0 |
Promphret | Windham | 1,727 | 1,677 | 50 | 0 |
Coventry | Windham | 1,635 | 1,617 | 18 | 0 |
Milford | New-Haven | 1,633 | 1,633 | 0 | 0 |
Mansfield | Windham | 1,614 | 1,598 | 16 | 0 |
Danbury | Fairfield | 1,527 | 1,509 | 18 | 0 |
Killingsworth | New-London | 1,458 | 1,442 | 16 | 0 |
Suffield | Hartford | 1,438 | 1,414 | 24 | 0 |
Woodstock | Windham | 1,366 | 1,336 | 30 | 0 |
Litchfield | Litchfield | 1,366 | 1,366 | 0 | 0 |
Canterbury | Windham | 1,260 | 1,240 | 20 | 0 |
New-Town | Fairfield | 1,253 | 1,230 | 23 | 0 |
Ashford | Windham | 1,245 | 1,245 | 0 | 0 |
Haddam | Hartford | 1,241 | 1,223 | 18 | 0 |
Sharon | Litchfield | 1,205 | 1,198 | 7 | 0 |
New-Milford | Litchfield | 1,137 | 1,121 | 16 | 0 |
Glastenbury | Hartford | 1,115 | 1,091 | 24 | 0 |
Ridgfield | Fairfield | 1,115 | 1,069 | 46 | 0 |
Canaan | Litchfield | 1,100 | 1,100 | 0 | 0 |
Salisbury | Litchfield | 1,100 | 1,100 | 0 | 0 |
Enfield | Hartford | 1,050 | 1,050 | 0 | 0 |
Voluntown | Windham | 1,048 | 1,029 | 19 | 0 |
Derby | New-Haven | 1,000 | 1,000 | 0 | 0 |
Kent | Litchfield | 1,000 | 1,000 | 0 | 0 |
Stafford | Hartford | 1,000 | 1,000 | 0 | 0 |
Tolland | Hartford | 917 | 902 | 15 | 0 |
Somers | Hartford | 900 | 900 | 0 | 0 |
Durham | New-Haven | 799 | 765 | 34 | 0 |
Bolton | Hartford | 766 | 755 | 11 | 0 |
New-Fairfield | Fairfield | 713 | 713 | 0 | 0 |
Willington | Hartford | 650 | 650 | 0 | 0 |
Goshen | Litchfield | 610 | 610 | 0 | 0 |
Union | Windham | 500 | 500 | 0 | 0 |
Cornwall | Litchfield | 500 | 500 | 0 | 0 |
New-Hartford | Litchfield | 260 | 260 | 0 | 0 |
Hawinton | Litchfield | 250 | 250 | 0 | 0 |
Torrington | Litchfield | 250 | 250 | 0 | 0 |
Norfolk | Litchfield | 84 | 84 | 0 | 0 |
Winchester | Litchfield | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
Barkhemsted | Litchfield | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
Hartland | Litchfield | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ Reference, GIS Government Information. "LibGuides Home: Colonial and State Census Records: Home". libguides.ctstatelibrary.org. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ Colonial and Pre-Federal Statistics, p. 18.
- ^ Connecticut (1850). The public records of the colony of Connecticut [1636-1776]. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Hartford : Lockwood & Brainard Company. pp. 617–618.