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NEW ENGLAND.
own opinions, and failed in charity towards those who differed, they at
least left their posterity free, without the attempt to secure before hand
the control of minds in other ages by transmitted symbols and tests. Hu¬
manity mourns over the rigors practised towards Roger Williams, the
Quakers, and the unhappy persons suspected of witchcraft; but let it
not be forgotten that, as late as 1749, a witch was executed at Wurzburg,
and that even in 1760 two women were thrown into the water in Leices¬
tershire, in England, to ascertain by their sinking or swimming whether
they were witches. Above all, it may deserve thoughtful enquiry, before
we condemn the founders of New England, whether a class of men less
stern in their principles and austere in their tempers, could have accom¬
plished, under all the discouragements that surrounded them, against all
the obstacles which stood in their way, the great work to which Provi¬
dence called them,—-the foundation of a family of republics, confederated
under a constitution of free representative government. There is every
reason to believe, great and precious as are the results of their principles,
hitherto manifested to the world, that the quickening power of those
principles will be more and more displayed, with every leaf that is turned
in the book of Providence.
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That part of the United States denominated New England, compri¬
ses SIX STATES, SIXTY ONE COUNTIES, and TWELVE HUNDRED AND
eighty towns. Their extent, divisions, and population at several
periods, are as follows : |
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States. |
Square miles |
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No. Towns. |
Pop. 1700. |
Pop. 1800. |
Pop 1810. |
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Pop. 1837. |
Pop. to sq.
mile. |
|
Me. |
32,000 |
12 |
346 |
96,540 |
151,719 |
228,705 |
298,335 |
399,43’. |
476,054 |
15 |
|
N. H. |
9 280 |
8 |
224 |
141,885 |
1S3,858 |
214,460 |
244,161 |
289,326 |
288,746 |
31 |
|
Vt. |
10,212 |
14 |
237 |
85,539 |
154,465 |
217,895 |
235,764 |
280,657 |
318,094 |
31 |
|
Mass. |
7,500 |
14 |
306 |
3:8,787 |
422,845 |
472 C4J |
523,287 |
610,408 |
701,331 |
94 |
|
R.I. |
1,330 |
5 |
31 |
63,825 |
69,122 |
73,931 |
83,059 |
97,199 |
108,769 |
80 |
|
Ct. |
4,674 |
8 |
136 |
237,946 |
251,002 |
261,942 |
275,202 |
297,675 |
304,755 |
65 |
|
|
35,026 |
61 |
1,280 |
1,009.522 |
1,233,011 |
1,471,973 |
1,659,808 |
1,054.704 |
2 197,733- |
34 |
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The population of Maine and Massachusetts, in 1837, is given as by
a census taken in that year. The population of New Hampshire, Ver¬
mont, Rhode Island and Connecticut, for 1837, is estimated according to
the ratio of increase, from 1S20 to 13 h>.
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