Full Title: The American Kalendar; or, United States Register, for New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. For the Year 1796. London: Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1796.
A VIEW of the Population of the United States of AMERICA.
In the year 1783, the number of inhabitants in the United States was computed at — 2,389,300
In the year 1791 it was according to the census taken — 4,131,616
The population therefore has increased, during eight years, — 1,742,316
And, according to this calculation, it has augmented from 1791 to 1794 — 653,367
The number of inhabitants in the United States was, therefore, in 1794 — 4,784,983
From this calculation, it appears that, in the natural course of things, the population of this country will be (if not checked by unforeseen events), in the year:
1800 — 6,091,717
in 1818 — 8,269,607
in 1820 — 10,447,497
in 1850 — 16,981,167
in 1900 — 27,879,617
Eighteenth-Century Reading Room 