TABLE NO. 16.
COMPARATIVE ORIGIN OF POPULATION IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK – BASED ON CENSUS OF 1855. *
|
BORN IN |
Percentages of the total population. |
|
New York |
64.077 |
|
New England |
6.014 |
|
New Jersey and Pennsylvania |
2.071 |
|
Southern States |
0.378 |
|
Western States |
0.340 |
|
United States |
72.903 |
|
Foreign Countries |
26.585 |
|
At sea and unknown |
0.512 |
* From Report of Paper by F. B. Hough, Sup’t of the State Census of 1855, read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society.
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