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Population Statistics Used in the U.S. Constitutional Convention
CC Pinckney's Report of State Populations
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, speaking in the South Carolina House of Representatives in January 1788, gave a set of figures for the "numbers in the different states, according to the most accurate accounts we could obtain." Farrand included this in his Appendix A: CLXXI.
Population Statistics Used in the U.S. Constitutional Convention
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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, speaking in the South Carolina House of Representatives in January 1788, gave a set of figures for the "numbers in the different states, according to the most accurate accounts we could obtain." Farrand included this in his Appendix A: CLXXI.
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In New Hampshire, 102,000
Massachusetts, 360,000
Rhode Island, 58,000
Connecticut, 202,000
New York, 233,000
New Jersey, 138,000
Pennsylvania, 360,000
Delaware, 37,000
Maryland, (including three fifths of 80,000 negroes,) 218,000
Virginia, (including three-fifths of 280,000 negroes,) 420,000
N. Carolina, (including three-fifths of 60,000 negroes,) 200,000
S. Carolina, (including three-fifths of 80,000 negroes,) 150,000
Georgia, (including three-fifths of 20,000 negroes,) 90,000
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Appendix A (Max Farrand, 1911)