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1-23-12 Question: Rosie-- What was the population size of Salem in 1692?


 * By 1750, more than one million people, representing a population increase of significant proportions, were living in the thirteen colonies along the Atlantic coast.


 * The decade census of 1690 says there were 210,400 people living in American colonies.
 * "Massachsetts Bay...did not much exceed, if it equalled, 1,000 souls" - Col. Hoyt in AMERICAN COLONIES by Franklin Dexter (1887) "300 persons in 1630 when Boston was founded...two years later it expanded to 2,000"
 * There were a lot of people! Read more online at this book: http://www.archive.org/stream/estimatesofpopul00dextrich#page/n1/mode/2up