1658 - 200 families or fewer in the colony.
1663 - 3-4,000 population.
1665 - 3,000 inhabitants.
1675 - 950 houses in the trading towns and ports.
1678 - 1,000-1200 men able to bear arms.
1680 - 500 planters and about 500 men besides. There may be about 200 whites and blacks born in a year.
1688 - 6,000 inhabitants.
1693 - 1,200 men able to bear arms.
1696 - 300 families, capable of furnishing 40 or 50 men.
1699 - 16,000 freemen in New Eng., Conn., and R.I.
1701 10,000 souls, of whom about 150 are Anglicans.
10,000 or 5,000 souls. 2,000 men fit to bear arms.
1704 1,200 men., 1,015 freemen; 1,362 militia; 56 white servants; 426 black servants; total inhabitants 7,181
1708 1,015 freemen;1,262 militia; 56 white servants;426 black servants; Total inhabitants, 7, 181.
1714 8,550 population. 9,000 total population: 8,500 whites and 500 blacks.
1721: 9,302 whites.
1726: 10,000 inhabitants.
1730: 15,302 whites, and 2,633 blacks, 958 Indian, 1,889 militia.
1740: additional 8000 militia in Conn. and R.I.
1748: 29,755 whites; 4,373 blacks; 1257 Indians.
1749: 35,000- total inhabitants.
1755: 40,636 total inhabitants; 35,939 whites, 4,697 Blacks and .
1765: 15,000 men and 50,000 inhabitants.
1767: 8,953 ratable estates and polls. (no other numbers given)
1770: 45,000 inhabitants.
1774: 50,000 inhabitant
1776 59, 678 total inhabitants: 54,435 Whites; 3,761 Blacks,,482 Indians.
1790 U.S. Bureau of Census: 68,825 total inhabitants: free white males over 16, 16,091; free what males under 16
15,799, free white females, 32,652; other free person, 3,407; slaves 948.
