What was the population in colonial New Hampshire?

Question

Hello :) I'm doing a report on colonial New Hampshire, and I've tried googling it, but I cant find it population. I need to know its population. Also, the proportion of men to women, and young to old, or at least something like "The men vastly outnumbered the women" thank you!

Answer 1

First, here are some total estimates for each of the colonies at intervals throughout the colonial period. Note that the chart distinguishes White and ***** population, but lists no other divisions
http://web.mala.bc.ca/davies/H320/population.colonies.htm


For more details, there WERE a number of censuses taken in New Hampshire in the 18th century, including one in 1776. Unfortunately, for these you will proably need either

a) access to a college/university library with volumes like the following (Dartmouth would, I expect, be perfect!)
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/2619932
http://www.genealogical.com/products/Inhabitants%20of%20New%20Hampshire%201776/6422.html

b) online access through your school or a library in the area (college or possibly public) with a subscription to articles like the following
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266(197801)93%3A366%3C203%3ATPOTBC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507(197203)32%3A1%3C165%3ATDHOCN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I


Now you CAN get some numbers from 1790 that might be of SOME value (Note -the official U.S. census has been held every 10 years beginning in 1790, and the census bureau has put something from each of these online.)
http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1790f-02.pdf

This will at least give you something about white male/female ratios and a bit about the slave and 'non-white free' population in a time not TOO distant from colonial days.

Note, for instance, that the proportion o male to female in New Hampshire in 1790 was nearly equal. (You can find remarks elsewhere saying the same about the late colonial period. I'm sorry, I do not know what the proportions may have been in the colony's EARLY days.)

Incidentally, the DECREASE in number between the 1780 estimates above and the 1790 census results may just be due to flawed methods in one or the other count... though it may well reflect the loss of Loyalists who left for Canada or other British regions (tens of thousands left the colonies during and just after the Revolution).