- 1565 The Spanish founded the first colony at St. Augustine, Florida
- 1587 First English child born in Roanoke, Virginia
- 1607 Foudation of Jamestown from 105 settlers only 32 surviewed at
the end of that year
- 1608 110 new settlers arrive at Jamestown. Population until 1610 was
approximately 440
- 1613 The Dutch settled on lower Manhattan Island
- 1620 Mayflower arrived Massachusetts with 101 settlers
- 1630 About 900 settlers arrived at Massachusetts Bay. Boston was
established
- 1634 The first 200 settlers arrive in Maryland
- 1640 About 5,700 settlers lived in the Colonies
- 1650 The number of settlers is estimated at 40000
- 1682 Large immigrations in Pennsylvania from Germany and Great Britain
- 1700 The population in the Colonies was about 250,000 from
which 20,000 were Africans
- 1720 The population is estimated at 475,000.
in Boston were living 12,000
in Philadelphia 10,000 and
in New York 7000 peoples
- 1750 Combined population of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania was
about 300,000.
Philadelphia had 25,000
New York had 15,000 residents and
in south and north carolina 100,000 immigrants lived
- 1760 The population grow to 1,500,000
- 1775 2,500,000 peoples lived in the Colonies among them about 500,000
Africans
Year
Total Number (Europeans and African Americans)
1630
4,646
1640
21,634
1650
50,368
1660
75,058
1670
111,935
1680
151,507
1690
210,372
1700
250,888
1710
331,711
1720
466,185
1730
629,445
1740
905,563
1750
1,170,760
1760
1,593,625
1770
2,148,076
Source: U.S. Bureau of Census, Histoical Statistics of the United States,
Colonial Times to 1970,
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1976
Population in the United States of America
- 1790 Outcome of the first census, 3,929,000 peoples lived in America.
Thereof only 202,000 lived in towns of 2,500 or more persons
