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From 1658 to 1820 Maine was an integral part of Massachusetts. In 1820, Maine was separated from Massachusetts (with its consent) and admitted into the Union as an independent state, as part of the Missouri Compromise. (See the History of Maine for information about its boundaries, including disputes with New Hampshire and Canadian provinces.)
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With his victory, Massachusetts abolished slavery, declaring it incompatible with the state constitution. 1790 When the first federal census was recorded in 1790, Massachusetts was the only state in the Union to record no slaves. 1798 First private black school in Primus Hall's home. 1800 Free black population nears 1,100. 1806
The 1892 New York state census is more vague, asking only for a country of birth (rather than a specific U.S. state or New York county of birth), not indicating relationships of various people to each other, and not indicating where new families begin on the census forms. [15]
b ^ While all Native Americans in the United States were only counted as part of the (total) U.S. population since 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau previously either enumerated or made estimates of the non-taxed Native American population (which was not counted as a part of the U.S. population before 1890) for the 1860–1880 time period.
Native people constructed this weir to trap fish as early as 7,000 years before European arrival in the Western Hemisphere. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The Shawmut Peninsula was originally connected with the mainland to its south by a narrow isthmus , Boston Neck , and was surrounded by Boston Harbor and Back Bay , an estuary of the Charles River . [ 5 ]
By 1790 the ancestry question was starting to become irrelevant to many, as intermarriage from different ethnic groups was becoming common, causing people to form a common American identity. The total white population in 1790 was about 80% of British ancestry, and would go on to roughly double by natural increase every 25 years.
The 1820 United States census was the fourth census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 7, 1820. The 1820 census included six new states: Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Maine. There has been a district wide loss of 1820 census records for Arkansas Territory, Missouri Territory, [1] and New Jersey.