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whites un2 164th makes females
white above ,by male
females
Boston
1676
3612
Roxbury
212
212
291
324
371
4,21
Dorchester
204
245
202
284
34,3
Milton
124
141
215
222
214
Braintree.
327
357
571
500
555
651
Weymouth
203
248
275
294
315
347 702
Hingham. 375
426
594
539
Hult
·
31
33
31
27
39 567
57 580
Stoughton
265
424 309
593 417
441
484 176 514-
531 211 551
Wrentham 293
347
464
Medway . .
123
138
165
215
210
bellingham 1.
72
82
119
/11
116
100
Needham Brookline
129
168
209 bs
226 62
246
250
Chelsea
54
70
110
85
99
Walpole
100
106
188
177
207
209
45935549 8822 8717 8054 9251
Dedham medfield
. 239
113
121
126 463 178
555
404 245
2009 4109
4010
2941
97
93 1'25
53
53
555
Suffolk
negro Amolato male female
Indians male female
french Neutral Dalute 16 20
Total
und male female
male female
510
301
21
16
/
3
1
15520 1493 1360
23
14
3/
16
2
1
1
31
35
1
3
3
3
13
14
7
11
9
12
2506
38 9 9 2% 3 18 .
15
3
1
2
1
2
4
2
/
/ /
2340 19,20 1639 2030 793 462
8 8
6
13
5
945 338
.20
13
2
2
/
3
3
452 792
812 530
38 34 17
24
23
26 36359
12
1
1
1
10
7
/
/
1
2
3
/ 948 2445. 1258
39 7 17
9 3
10
47
33
1
1 4
,
Elsex
housses families
whites und 16 y male
Do aboutstyr male
female
Jatem 1Danvers Ipswich Newbury
500 288
923
381
458
468
501
634
531
670
791
601
931
1119
401
489 540
613
566
519
935
11891031
275
388
469
401
531
360
438
533
558
565
307
404 200
495 222
320
493
201
240
200
322
472 411 354
366
304 404
350
494 865 160
469 841 141 194 366 238 120
505 667 183 220 380 201 120
219 227 444 384
166
72 83
192 95 97
125 125 150
121 163
140
160
Manchester 103
1551
183
203
Salisbury Haverhill Gloucester Sorosfield Boxford Almsbury Bradford Wenham Middleton
487 1061
105
128
149 204
200
242
173
35/ 257
482
239
837 1435 648 700 635
Nent"port Marblehead Lynn Andover Vseverty
357
739 1199
872
622
605
1050
1335
985
female
677 130
loountr
negroes mall
Indians female male female
frenchneutrals undr male
Female
about 16 malefem:
Total
117
56
3
13
18
37
35
5
3
60
40
9.
21
17
35
29
15
11
14
23
71
29
3
5
1
1
7
7
3
3
1
2
5 1
56 37 11 5 13
2
3
4
4
12
3
3
2
4
57
52
1
1
4
3
12
4 5
9 6
2
2
1
1
9 13
15 3
2
14
21
/
4
1
1
10
13
6004201
0 2
52 57 59 77 42777
squis 2 6
1
1
31
18
30
42 11
/
2 4
7
4254 2061 3642 2018 2882 4954 2208 2462 2171 1481 1344 1992 3772 719 841 1530 1166 564 581 739
.
Elsex
houses
familie.
whites und-016 · male female
abvv 163% male female
Broughtover Methuen
5601 7813 150
158
9312 250
9281 194
10.400 247
12425 239
Middlesex
Cambridge
237
25%
311
200 392
Charlestown
289
375
360
Watertown Wobum
103
117
172 365
Concord
244
265
335
136 314 389 316 416 255
322 436 348
432 340 471 356
Newton Sudbury Marlboro
183
213
307
Billerica
189
223
312
335 302
313 30€
360 347
Framinghm
205
234
325
Lexington
126
142
210
189
228
Chelmsford
/33
176
246
241 304
Therborn
106
//3
224 172
227
140
156
187
374 486 170 373 381
510 648 195 424
220
287
222
174 263
316
304 422
bounty cont
nagrody male female
Indian made female
French neutral und male
16 female
above male
16 y" formale
Total
600 2
426
6
2
52
. 57
59
7742777 930
Country
47 84
43 52 6
2
2
4 6
3 7
1582 2048
5
20
19
1517
15
12
10
7
.15
12
10 11
1287
8
6
1334
14
11
/
2
4
26
18
1313 912 1012
7
4
4
2
2
1
643 2
..
1
2
2
Middlesex
houses
familier
whites und 16 male.
female
male
about 16y" female
Reading Malden Weston
224
290
174
200
210
230
175
196
Medford
104
147
161
150
207
223 200
Littleton Hopkinton Westford
122
143
154
169
23/
145 166
365
365 340
72
121
135
122 196 166 56 109
102 191 151 77 120
90 194 137 77 99
94 54
71
67 84 103
72 99 14/
10% 153 191
1.16 170 198
100 145 184
124
153
203
339
400
422
144
105.
126
195
160 242
175
212
/35
223
233 169 164
27% 269 174 174 358 110 204 /36 98 /22
Waltham Wilmington Groton Shirley Atoni
143 94 94 174
107 97 242
97 59 91
Townsend Voncham Watich Dracut Bedford Lincoln Tentisbury
274
217 162 159
209 184
335
County Gone
negro; y moral male formale
male female
francfrutos Do about- 16y" male formale una916 male
Total
25
3
3
3
/
1
10
8
20
18
2
8
9
9 5 7
5
663
P
7 2
3
6 4 14 10
4 10
13
24
9 20 2
7 5 3
female
1
27
9 21
4
1537 992 7'68 790 773
794. 340
14
457 646
Middles ex
houses
Jamky,
whitecent 16 male female
above 16yrs male
female
Holliston Action
103
113
168 142
170 147 122
183 160
176 1.59
Dunstable Pepperrell
90 117
90 130
140 193
200
189
172
Hampshire
404
477
641
608 697 770
1881
203
314
285
66
76
92
100
341 117
334 127
Southampton Youthadley Hadley
/33
142
i93 125
127
202 150 150 204
162
96 126
132
192 341
160 177 328
157
193
45
58 64
106
79 99
95 95
87 100 104
Northfield
60
60
105
97 1,03
200 151
99. 104
167
'Amherst Hatfield Westfield Deerfield Greenfield montaque
191 85
195
123
209 206 102
49
97
1532 0133 2561 2430 2009 2731
Springfield Northampton
96
100
130
143
213
Cont
nextour mold females
Indian male female
neutrale, und male
1621
about 16 male
female
st
3
1
2
7
9
3
County
27
12
5
1
13
7
5
1
14
7
2
4
2
4
23
18
0
11 1
1
3
3
103
2 4 2
2755 1280> 437 817 573 64,5
815 1324 737 368 392 415
410567
Total
Hampshire
houses
familie
whites male
und "163 female
whites above 1b nale
female
1532 121
17.33 130
2561 198
142
/30
151
69
107
79
101
57
57
87
87
8.4
62
69
99
116
90
99 /33
99 140
Belcher tonn Cotrain
45
48
76
82
74
76
127
122
109
126
Ware Chesterfield.
30
30
39
41
46
35
Bernardston
38
40
56
54
33
Roxbury Canady? or Warwick
36
36
57
43
51
40
Thutesbury
56
76
98
82
73
Wilbraham underland
74
59 82
119
110
129
123
Greenwich
carried over
24,30
26 60 2731 20% 203
brought over Brimfield South Pormif Monson Delham
147 95 /11
VerSaler Blandford Palmer
Granville
100 01
123
197 112
149 99 65
180
152
87
99
68
6'8
74
123
110
99 74
108
90
91
bounty Cont
negroes male female
Indiana male female
Neutrali mala feriale
abor: 16 male female
Total
103
61
2
4
2
4
19503
2
2
2
3
4
2
/
1
2
3
389 371 375 '406 500 682 418 207 485 161 230 191 330 491
6242
Hampshire
houver familien
white, und 16 yr male female
about 16 yrs male female
Brought over Hints town
Worcester
357
Worcester Lancaster Jutton
301
328 370
514 558
350 421 497
505 510
Mendon
284
336
460
425 412
441 439
Shrewsbury Uxbridge
199
223
493 367
319
339 305 277
Westborough
163
181
278
Southboro'
110
126
160
184
216
Rutland
166
182
275 187
244
281
273
118
118
192
177
159
Riellodistrict Carried over
204
229
3,76
370
294
Brookfield
267
283
532 553 497 452 360 304 324
186
211
283
308 218 161
2202 2587 3957 3547 3828 4029
County Cont
negroel male female
Indian male female
neutral, war "16 male
female
Do above 16 male formala
Total
County 5
5
11 12
14
6
11
5
4
2
10
7
1401
6
12/3
3
4 5
5
9
1
1110 73/ 1090 734
85 81 6 9
2 /
1 15547
4 /
1478 1999 2137 1843 1811
Worcester
horses
families
while, undrib male
female
above 16 yrs male
Female
2292
2581
305/
3547 206
3828
4029
Charlton
114
124
191
164
Leicester
119
146
187
170
195 210
196
Spencer
100
111
174 152
146
160 152
1'52 141
new Braintree
94 41
41
73
78
60
58
Lunenburg
145
1751
220
136
237
221
Bolton
145
155
234
225
225
Sturbridge
136
136
212
240
218
Hardwick
153
161
250
256
239
Grafton
170
175
193
150
150
Leominster Holden
62
75
186 161 130
199 110 148
135 173 109 155
Western
92
100
97
142
111
153
173
276
139 270
272
138 129 296
100
115
202
186
166
145.
car over
128
148
2.47
214
200
188
173
98
Oakham
239 210 251 196 157 180 107
109 94 104
109 104 107
Douglas Hahurd Dudley Petersham
90
Broughtover Oxford
County Cont
negrion male female
male female
Neutrale und male
Dalvik 16 y' female male formale
Total
85
81
6
9
1
3
2
3
2
1
1 5 1 3 3 5 3 2 1 3
2 2 3 1
8
3
2
1
7
51
5
3
2 / 1 2 1 6
5
1
/
8:21 993 899 1010 760 614 743 495 583 521
!
2
2
4 1 4
115547 890 7'41 770 664 594 270
Worcester
houses
families
white, und 16 male
female
male
16 female
Brought over Templetonn Westminster Athol
65 06
64 86
95 /33
84 108
1/2
81 113
Princetonon Fitchburgh
41 57
55
02
65
72
. 65
43
43
70
66
61
60
Plymouth Bridgewater middleboro' Scituate
256
373
488
475
532
605
571 490
630 577
964 855
841
804
880
3.48
431
516
603 742
272
326
470
520 442
485
210
233
315
290
357
154
238
220
273
311
150
197 168 232
287
210
274.
328 362
186
352
336
328
110
13/
194
162
196
196
car over
2755 3278
4679 4436 4762 5411
932
910
1042
Rochester Pembroke Duxbarq'
520 425
Marshfield Plimpton Kingston
60
103
85
Plymouth
County Cont
negroel male female
Indians male female.
Neutrale und anale
16 female
De above 16 male female
Total
2
348 468 3.57 284 284
County
38
39
23
25
3
2
9 3
7 5
2246
45
49
8
15 18
3990 3438 2501
55
52
4
9 27
1
2
3
3
1985
14
8
7
21
5
2
1
1
1446
3
5
1
5
1.
4
1061
25
15
1
4
2
1
4 1159
%
3
7
13
3
1
2
1
5
4
5
6
1417 774
17
15
8
9
.
12
10
10
224 201 69 137 26 16 25 31 20017
Plymouth
houses
families
whiter un gr1 6 yrs males
females
above 16 yrs male
female
Porought over Abington Halifax
2755
3278
4679
44364762
174
217
323
308
300
5411 311
Wareham Hanover
57
97 81
123
119
116
140
-15
20
see beloto
Barnstable
325
361
474
432
524
622
255
400
405
427 346
486 360
200
295 245 283
313
317 386 267 217 266
420 342 216 266
454 415 227
129
145 107 105 82
157 182 134 127 85
225 145 23
153 19
. 241 173 15
202
20
2779 2692 2970 3250
Barnstable yarmouth Vandnich Harwich 'Eastham Wellfleet Falmouth Truro Chatham Mashpee
235
182
237
308 292 243 266
234 222
230
127
166
122
130
85
85-
23
-
County Cont
negros komoly Indiany Somale male female
Muito und 16 male female
2º diave 16 male female
Total
224
201 10
69
137
26
16
25
31
11 6
5
1
2
3
6
10
20017 1263 551 519
13 101 109
County
36
6
7
0 3
6 2
3 3
1
18
14
30
12
35
43 50 3
1449 1772 1331 928 1125.
9
12
35
27
9 3
3
1
925 678
4
1
18
13
101
129
135
104
223
292
9
8
6
3
12471
.
20 11
12
19
2146. 17'80
11
5
11 6 5
1
3
338
2
malé
Bristol
houses
families
whiterund 16 male female
male female
Jaunton
617
678
734 1248 954
Dartmouth Rehoboth Granrey Attleboro Norton Dighton
266 295
301
343
401 477 276
419 447 260 172 146
422 460
422 528
Eaton
134
100
154 100 110.
219 170 165
153
150
181
Freeton
york Kittery Berwick Wells
272
988
397 372 364
490 489 664
4,86 490
568 551 567 363
671 766 547 357
Arundel Piadeford Cepporelbono
124 87
116
182
186
190 178
194 179
66
96
140
126
145
125
Narragan's SI
397 679 498
493 700 617
651 1103 964
9651129
901
273 222 181
297 220
Raynham Berkley
184
94
222
552
219
25/
130
427 216
382
228
148
198
County
goes 2. female
Indiana male Vessiale
male
female male female
6
20
1
5
7
35 40
5
2744 4581 3690
3 9 1 2 3
2
11
28 2
1
2
2
3
2
3
5
4
2
842 604 661
6
20
6
5
4
6
2298 2368
3/
3/
3
3
2
2
70
24
2374 156g
21
13
3
1
/
1
2 8
3
/
/
1
837
14
3.
1
1
7.53 540
2
2
Total
25
0739 1942
3
Cumberland
houses
families
white and216 male
female
969 251
918 277
964 278
25.
200
210
353
281
319
301
55
111
224
224
180
18.
73
73
139
114
149
9.
Lincoler
101
175
210
223
225
23.
28
127
100
100
Topsham Wootnach
78 116
110
92
9,
Bowdoinham
30
37
63
53
59
160
565
8%
Falmouth north yarm" Scarborough Harpswell Brunswick Gorham Windham Pearson tonn
Pannalboro" Georgetown Noncastle
180
388
317
325 117 85
05
69 54 64
184 69 52 63
188
154
Do alive 16 male female
bounty
gres le female
Indian male female
NeutrAnd 16 male female
Do above 16 male female
Total
0:
14 10
2
7
4
3783 1079
0 4
5
1272
10
836
3
1
504
6. 9
County 3 4
899 1329 454 327 415 200
Dukes
homes
familie
whites und by" Do above 16y" female male marte Vernale
Edgartown Chilmark Tisbury
128
150
114 100
234 152 165
200 156 166
150 220
248 179 233
Sherburne
413
boz
776
Nantucket 758 904
882
Berths
great Barrington Sheffield
140 272
134 249
Vandisfield Tyringham Cuttsfield
87 126 66 51 39
91 172 69 55 70
127 250 126 95 110
121 276 93 85
105
O 66
114
77 105
Egremont Stockbridge nes marlboro:
34
34
50
46
64
57
Nº4 -
233
90 110
bounty
negroes Indian female male female
neutron2016 Do above 16y" nale ferriale
male female
12
9
37
40 110
9 4
5
15
24
Country
24
20
83
66
13
3526
County
C 5
10 10 2
2 2
6
4
15
12
108
1/3
550 1073 409 325 428
244+
Total
1030 851 838
72
Note on the Manuscript
THE following places included in Massachusetts in 1765, and shown in the Crane Manuscript, are now included in Maine, which became an independent State in 1820: York, Kittery, Ber- wick, Wells, Arundel, Biddeford, Pepperelboro', Narragansett, Falmouth, North Yarmouth, Scarborough, Harpswell, Brunswick, Gorham, Windham, Pearsontown, Pownalboro', Georgetown, Newcastle, Topsham, Woolwich, Bowdoinham.
The town of Sherburne, given in the manuscript under the county of Nantucket, is now the town of Nantucket, the name having been changed June 8, 1795. Almsbury is now Amesbury, and Freeton is now Freetown. Many of the other towns whose names appear in the manuscript have suffered loss of territory by the creation of new towns since the enumeration of 1765.
Besides the places listed in the manuscript the following towns existed in Massachusetts in May, 1765: Provincetown, established June 14, 1727; Paxton, established Feb. 12, 1765; Ashburnham, established Feb. 22, 1765; Royalston, established Feb. 19, 1765; and Winchendon, established June 14, 1764.
Massachusetts also then included Enfield (not the present town of that name), Suffield, and Somers, afterwards ceded to Connecti- cut. Neither of these appears in the manuscript.
* The town by that name which appears with the Cumberland County towns in the manuscript. There was another Falmouth now, as then, existing in Barnstable County, Massa- chusetts.
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Early Census Making
The following which appear in the manuscript had not been created towns in May, 1765, but were called "districts" : Mash- pee, Wellfleet, New Marlborough, New Salem, Granville, South Brimfield, Ware, Rutland (the district being separate from the town of Rutland), Douglas, New Braintree, Oakham, Prince Town, Spencer, and Westminster. The towns established from these districts were given the same names, except that South Brim- field became Wales; Rutland district, Barre; and Prince Town, Princeton.
The province also contained important " plantations," so called, eventually to become towns. Hunt's Town, afterward the town of Ashfield, and Plantation "No. 4," out of which the town of Becket was formed, appear in the manuscript, but without entries in the returns. Other plantations then existing, but which are not found in the manuscript, were New Framingham, soon to become the town of Lanesborough; West Hoosuck, from which the town of Williamstown was created; and Charlemont, eventu- ally to become the town of the same name.
The thirty largest towns in the State at the time of the enu- meration of 1765, as shown by the Crane Manuscript, were the following, the population in each being inserted in parentheses : Boston (15,520); Marblehead (4,954); Dartmouth (4,581); Salem (4,254); Bridgewater (3,990); Falmouth, now in Maine (3,783); Gloucester (3,772); Rehoboth (3,690); Ipswich (3,642); Sher- burne, now Nantucket (3,526); Middleborough (3,438); New- bury (2,918); Newburyport (2,882); Springfield (2,755); Taunton (2,744); Hingham (2,506); Scituate (2,501); Andover (2,462); Braintree (2,445); Berwick, now in Maine (2,374); Kittery, now
In Massachusetts
L IO3
J
in Maine (2,368); Stoughton (2,340); York, now in Maine (2,298); Plymouth (2,246); Lynn (2,208); Beverly (2,171); Barnstable (2,146); Sutton (2,1 37); Danvers (2,061); Charlestown (2,048).
A list of the thirty largest towns at the present time includes only seven of these, namely: Boston, Gloucester, Lynn, New- buryport, Springfield, Salem, and Taunton. Charlestown, which would otherwise appear there, has been merged in the City of Boston.
On the other hand, the thirty largest towns at present in Massachusetts include besides Boston, Gloucester, Lynn, New- buryport, Springfield, Salem, and Taunton, the following: Worces- ter, Fall River, Lowell, Cambridge, Lawrence, New Bedford, Somerville, Holyoke, Brockton, Haverhill, Chelsea, Malden, Newton, Fitchburg, Everett, North Adams, Quincy, Waltham, Pittsfield, Brookline, Chicopee, Northampton, and Medford. Of these, Fall River, Lowell, Lawrence, Somerville, Holyoke, Brock- ton, Everett, North Adams, Quincy, Brookline, and Chicopee had no corporate existence in 1765, many of them owing their origin and growth to the development of manufacturing during the nineteenth century.
A glance at the list of the thirty largest towns in 1765 discloses the prosperity at that time of the older communities, especially those which possessed special advantages of site. Many of them were upon the seaboard or near it. The changed conditions of modern life, the introduction of machinery, the trend of the State towards manufacturing, and the relative decline of coastwise com- merce and the fisheries have not only led to the creation of new
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towns which have become the thriving cities of to-day, but many of the places which in 1765 were prominent have actually declined in population, or have shown no increase at all proportionate to the general increase in population in the Commonwealth.
The population by the latest census (1900) of the thirty towns which in 1765 outranked the others was as follows: Boston (560,892); Marblehead (7,582); Dartmouth (3,669); Salem (35,956); Bridgewater (5,806); Falmouth, Maine (1,511); Gloucester (26,121); Rehoboth (1,840); Ipswich (4,658); Nan- tucket (3,006); Middleborough (6,885); Newbury (1,601); Newburyport (14,478); Springfield (62,059); Taunton (31,036); Hingham (5,059); Scituate (2,470); Andover (6,813); Braintree (5,981); Berwick, Maine (2,280); Kittery, Maine (2,872); Stoughton (5,442); York, Maine (2,668); Plymouth (9,592); Lynn (68,513); Beverly (13,884); Barnstable (4,364); Sutton (3,328); Danvers (8,542); Charlestown, now part of Boston (40,652).
It is also interesting to note that the average number of white children under sixteen years of age to a family, as shown by the census of 1765, was 2.87, while the average, according to the census of 1900, was 134 to each family.
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