Very interesting. By way of comparison, The population of the UK in 1790 was around 10.5 MIO, that of Spain around 14.7 MIO, and that of France around 28.5 MIO (!) , the combined population of the US and the UK was therefore around half that of France and about the same as Spain.

@JeffreytheLibrarian

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Thank you for those figures. That provides a great context. I'd seen Great Britain's numbers before, but not France and Spain.

@ilFrancotti

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this information. Given these figures it looks even crazier that France suffered its heaviest defeat in any conflict just few decades earlier in 1760 in the Seven Years War.

Excellent telling of the settling of the US through census information Great visuals as always

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I heard you give the TINIEST chuckle when you said "Balls Town" 😂

I love your early history videos. Please keep them coming 🙌

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I don't know if you are calling your recent videos a series, for they have a bit of a common theme on establishing a firm foundation for understanding the history of the United States, but I have been following very closely with each new upload. I appreciate your content greatly, and am eager for more!

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, that means a lot to me. More to come!

Really interesting, thank you 🙏

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I am a huge fan! Your videos are so clear and understandable. I especially love your videos about Gettysburg. Keep it coming!

@JeffreytheLibrarian

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate. More to come.

Great vid, very interesting to see early American perspective which you present very well

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Please do more of these videos

6:17 balls town lol

@ranjittyagi9354

Жыл бұрын

I've passed that on the metro in DC. That must be 2005 or 2006.

Thanks for the history and info. We have to remember where we came from to know where we’re going. That goes all the way back! Our history is very important, someone else who has control of your history has control of you.

@JeffreytheLibrarian

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Thank you for watching!

@2:32 - ME was actually part of MA during this era.

Dry, but highly informative. Thanks.

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

thank you!

Cool

@JeffreytheLibrarian

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Thanks!

I am able to learn more about how Franklin struggled trying to be a state but was let down by North Carolina Vs the natives, let down by the congress to become a state, and was attacked by Chickasaw, Cherokee, and other groups of natives. I can't find any videos anywhere on how Tennessee was able to pull off statehood with congress, NC, and especially the natives within 5 years of Franklin ending, anywhere? Does anyone have any suggestions of a video explaining how Tennessee pulled this off?

0:00 The 1790 Census 0:22 The Census is required by Article 1 Section 2 of The Constitution 1:14 0:37 3/5 Count of Slaves 1:27 The first 13 States of America. 2:24 14 - Vermont in 1791 2:32 Maine was included even though it wasn’t a state at the time *What the 1790 Census Found* 2:53 Virginia 748,000 Pennsylvania 434,000 North Carolina 394,000 Massachusetts 379,000 New York 340,000 Maryland 320,000 Connecticut 238,000 New Jersey 184,000 New Hampshire 142,000 Maine 97,000 Vermont 85,000 Kentucky 74,000 4:42 Rhode Island 69,000 4:51 Delaware 59,000 5:05 Tennessee “The Southwest Territory” 36,000 5:40 American Towns had been the size of Native American Villages, 100-200 people *Large Towns To Small Towns 1790 USA* 5:49 Philadelphia PA 42,500 New York City NY 32,300 6:23 Boston MA 18,000 6:42 Charlestown SC 16,400 6:56 Baltimore MD 13,500 Salem MA 7,900 Watervliet NY 7,400 Balls Town NY 7,300 Stephen Town NY 6,800 8:28 Bennington VT 2,400 8:48 3/5 Representation *Slaves, Free Persons, Where They Were* 694,000 Slaves 18% of Total USA Population 9:20 Free African Americans 59,500 1/11 10:07 New Hampshire 158 Slaves 630 Free African Americans Persons, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania had 1% enslaved population 10:42 New York 21,324 slaves New Jersey 11,423 slaves *South Economy Before Cotton* 11:13 Tobacco, Indigo, Rice Plantations. 11:29 Maryland, Virginia 12:07 North Carolina and South Carolina. 13:08 Kentucky, Tennessee 13:36 North Cities Water Factories. South Cash Crop Economy.

By the end of that year in 1790 New York lost its status as capital of United States, but became the largest city in the US and has never looked back since.

my rats fall asleep to these every night. thank you!

@JeffreytheLibrarian

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Thank you!

@ratbobby

Жыл бұрын

@@JeffreytheLibrarian your channel about to blow up btw. these vids are great !

2:43 5:55

What about Native Americans? Were they "Other Free Persons"? Or just not counted?

@forestcityfishing4749

Жыл бұрын

Good luck counting nomads.

@markaxworthy2508

Жыл бұрын

@@forestcityfishing4749 Ahh, but they weren't necessarily nomads, were they? The Cherokees, for example, farmed. What was the status of Native Americans under this census?

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

Great question. The 1790 census did not have a special column for Native Americans. In the 1790s, natives, from the perspective of the US government, were "the other" beyond the frontier.

@myradioon

Жыл бұрын

Many Indians hadn't been nomadic for hundreds of years at that point. Native Americans in the New England area were landowners some buying land early from the Puritans. Many Massachussett Indians became "Praying Indians" and were assimilated into the Commonwealth becoming citizens. They served in militias and in the Continental Army. The Militia company that rowed Washington across the Delaware (twice) was from from Swampscot, MA and contained many Native American fisherman. Some Native Americans received land grants for service in the Continental Army - as is the case with some of the Cherokee in NC (many of these landowners thus avoided the "Trail of Tears"). Native Americans were counted as "other free persons". Many Natives were mixed race and listed as "free people of color".

@myradioon

Жыл бұрын

@@JeffreytheLibrarian Not true at all. Many Native Americans were citizens in New England having owned land and even businesses since the 1600's, some being allies to the early Puritans and having some status. Many worked on boats and ships (See "Moby Dick"). Most Militia musters at the start of the Revolution contained Native American names, and Indians freely fought for the Colonies. The common practice of carving "Scrimshaw" (a native word) into Colonial Powder Horns was introduced by natives. They received salary and some even land grants for service. Many were counted in the census.

No, slaves did not count as 3/5ths of a person. Rather, for the purpose of calculating representation in Congress, the total number of slaves were to be multiplied by 3/5ths. Remember that slaves were not permitted to vote, so the compromise was struck between supporters of slavery, who wanted the total number of slaves to count toward their states' representation, and opponents of slavery, who wanted not to count slaves at all when calculating a states' representation. The compromise slightly favored slave states.

This census is far from "exact" when counting slaves vs. free men of color etc.. It's important to remember that very many escaped slaves, free men of color, mixed race people, some Native Americans etc at this point were in jobs and living quarters on the margins, purposefully hiding, keeping a low profile, getting paid in cash and living itinerantly in trades where they could. Many worked on ships and in the grey areas of "docks, ports and waterfronts" precisely because they didn't want to be seen and were paid "off the books" as it were. Crispus Attucks who helped instigate the Boston Massacre was a rope maker, probably mixed race black/native American (his last name hints he was part Native) who had worked in ports up and down the East Coast. He didn't have a "home" like many itinerant free/escaped black/mixed workers like him. The "Watauga Association" (a Native word) was a break away colony in 1772 NC consisting of whites, escaped prisoners, free men of color, escaped slaves and natives who lived far in the back country. These types of people would never be counted on a census, and it is circumstances like this that many free minority people lived. I bet some numbers are double or quadruple in reality. Also, just as undocumented immigrants are rarely counted in the census today, the early U.S. had thousands of immigrants streaming in month to month. Most were undocumented in census records.

Imagine being one of just 3.9 million in a such a giant country. The world really would seem much emptier.

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

From our perspective today it would be very low population density. But in the 18th century, folks were used to living very agrarian lives. A town of 1000 people was really, really big.

Balls Town

Here’s the problem: did they count any of the aboriginal populations that were captured and enslaved? Also, did they count the people who were indentured servants, and enslaved from immigration? I wish people who look at these things dig deep into the massive corruption. That senses operations were. Also, it will be interesting to map the desire of the federal government to want to do a census and realize it’s directly connected to the agreement that the new nation have with its former , colonial, Master and current bank loan holder in the British monarchy that required the company of the United States to keep track of its citizens. All of this is extremely important to realize that it was a financial decision related to the loans and obligations that the country still had to both the United Kingdom, France, who loan the money of the revolutionary war, and the ultimate bondholder the holy Roman Empire

@____2080_____

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This comment is not meant to be a troll. It is merely helping us understand and appreciate the true political and economic reality of the United States without having rose colored glasses that most American historians use in describing these issues. Most historians do not understand the obligations that the United States since is inception had to have since it decided to break away from the United Kingdom “Virginia company of London” By examining the banker relationships with the company/country of the US and the decisions that were made, and the political pressure of various operatives of global banking, we could understand many more of decisions that the United States made, and those decisions were mostly driven by obligations with the United Kingdom during the colonial formation of the country. In short, the United States never truly broke away from Britain. Especially in any meaningful way.

Native Americans , mixed race and black population ?

@JeffreytheLibrarian

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The 1790 census only specifies between "free white," "other free persons," and "slaves." It can be inferred that the African American population is found in the "slave" column and in the "other free persons" column, in the case of free African Americans.

@myradioon

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Many Native Americans were citizens in New England having owned land and even businesses since the 1600's, some being allies to the early Puritans and having some status. Most Militia musters at the start of the Revolution contained Native American names, and Indians freely fought for the Colonies. The common practice of carving "Scrimshaw" (a native word) into Colonial Powder Horns was introduced by natives. They received salary and some land grants. They were often listed as "Other Free Persons" and could also be "Free persons of Color" as many were mixed race. Many, many served on Clipper Ships too as seen in "Moby Dick".

Interesting if they broke it down by race, age or gender

Insane that Southern states had 20%, 30%, and 40% of their population as slaves. I think one can get a skewed picture of history by focusing on the total number of people living in each state when a fifth to more than two fifths were kept as property by slaveholders. Good for the people of Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine for having rejected this vile practice before 1790. Watervliet? Never heard about this town in my native New York, and ashamed by the relatively large number of slaves in the state, six times as high as its neighbors, save NJ.

@nisnber5760

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Watervliet had a population of just 10,375 in the 2020 census, which means it's grown just over 40% in 230 years!

The ancestry would have been great

Overestimated natives

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

It's actually estimated that there may have been 100,000 in the Iroquois Confederacy at contact.

We’re Indigenous Americans included in any of the tabulations? Or did the count only include “citizens?” Of course, slaves and women could not vote, so we’re they any more citizens than the indigenous tribes?

@JeffreytheLibrarian

Жыл бұрын

Really good question. I think here and there certain native individuals had been assimilated into the United States, but in 1790, Native Americans were considered by the government to be the "other," and the frontier was a conflict zone. In the 1790s, the Ohio country became the next war zone between the US and native nations.

@myradioon

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Many Native Americans were citizens in New England having owned land and even businesses since the 1600's, some being allies to the early Puritans and having some status. Many had occupations often working on boats and ships. Most Militia musters at the start of the Revolution contained Native American names, and Indians freely fought for the Colonies. The common practice of carving "Scrimshaw" (a native word) into Colonial Powder Horns was introduced by Natives. They were listed as "Other Free Persons" or "Free Persons of Color" as many were mixed race.

VERY INTERESTING VIDEOS WHICH CORRELATES TO MY FAMILY ANCESTRY RECEIVED LAND GRANTS FOR MILITARY SERVICE AND SETTLED AND FOUNDED LAUREL, KENTUCKY IN THE 1790'S. CENSUS RECORDS ARE EXCELLENT PLACE TO TRACK YOUR FAMILIES HISTORY IN THE USA. IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR FAMILIES FROM THE PAST YOUR REALLY MISSING OUT IN THE PRESENT.