*The whole of that portion of land, south of the city, now called "The District of Southwark," was included in the township of Moyamensing, until the year 1762, when the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed a law creating it a separate district, to be thereafter known as the " District of Southwark."

+ The Act of the Legislature, creating the county of Montgomery, cut off so large a portion of the original township of Moreland, (adding it to the county of Montgomery) as to leave but a small number of the taxable inhabitants within the present limits of that township, which accounts for their number having decreased from 125 to 89.

1742. The imports from England this year was 75,295£. sterling.

1744.-A letter from Secretary Peters to the proprietaries, states the population of the city as estimated at 13,000 people and 1500 houses. The same is confirmed in the same year, by the minutes of the City Council.

1747.-The imports from England this year were 82,404£. sterling.

1749. This spring the houses in the several wards were counted by the following named gentlemen, and amounted to 2076 in number, to wit:

At the same time (1749) the places of worship were these, to

The same year (1749) Proud states that 25 large ships arrived with Germans, bringing 600 persons each, making together 12,000 souls in one year, and that nearly as many came annually from Ireland, so as to people whole counties of those two nations.

1751. The imports from England this year were 190,917£. sterling. Vide Proud.

1752.-Dr. Franklin stated before the House of Commons, that 10,000 hogsheads of flaxseed had been in that year exported from Philadelphia-making 70,000 bushels, and that all the flax that grew with it they manufactured into coarse linen. On George Heap's map the exports are detailed thus, viz. 125,960 barrels of flour, 86,500 bushels of wheat, 90,740 bushels of corn, 249 tons of bread, 3431 barrels of beef, and 4812 barrels of pork.

1753. There were ascertained by the assessor to be 2300 houses, including the city and suburbs.

1760. There were ascertained by the same assessor to have been in the city and suburbs 2969 houses, and 8321 taxables in the city and county. It was also officially reported that there were then 5687 taxable inhabitants in the whole county of Philadelphia, and their county tax was laid at 5653£. 19s. 6d. The city tax was laid at 5633£. 13s. on 2634 taxables. At the same time were reported as within the county, the following mills, to wit:-83 gristmills, 40 sawmills, 6 papermills, 1 oilmill, 12 fullingmills, 1 horsemill, 1 windmill, and 6 forges.

1766.-Dr. Franklin, when examined this year before a committee of the House of Commons, respecting the repeal of the Stamp Act, stated the following facts, to wit:

He supposed there were in Pennsylvania about 160,000 white inhabitants, of whom one-third were Quakers, and one-third were Germans.

The taxes were then laid on all estates, real and personal-a poll tax-a tax on offices and professions, trades and businesses, according to their profit-an excise on all wine, rum, and other spirits, and 10£. duty per head on all negroes imported.

The tax on all estates, real and personal, was 18d. in the pound, fully rated, and the tax on the profits of trades and professions, &c. made about 2s. 6d. in the pound. The poll tax on unmarried men was 15s. per head. All the taxes in Pennsylvania then produced about 20,000£. per annum.

He said he thought our people increase faster than in England, because they marry younger and more generally, and this they did because they may easily obtain land by which to raise their families. He said the people had by general agreement disused all goods fashionable in mournings.

The imports from Great Britain he presumed to be above 500,000£. per annum, and the exports to Britain he supposed did not exceed 40,000£. per annum.

1767.-The exports of Philadelphia for one year were thus offi

cially stated, to wit: 367,500 bushels of wheat, 198,516 barrels of flour, 34,736 barrels of bread, 60,206 bushels of corn, 6645 barrels of pork, 609 barrels of beef, 882 tons of bar iron, 813 tons of pig iron, 12094 hogsheads of flaxseed, 1288 barrels of beer.

1769.-In December of this year the assessor gave in the following list of houses then ascertained, to wit:

In the Northern Liberties or Northern suburbs to Second street bridge, over Stacy's run, (Cohocksinc) 553-and in Southwark or southern suburbs to the north side of Love lane 608-making together 4474 in the city and suburbs, of dwellinghouses exclusively. 1770.-This year the number of houses were ascertained to have

At the same time the number of churches were ascertained to have been 16, to wit:

1771.-The taxable inhabitants are stated by Proud as being 10,455 in number for the city and county, of whom 3751 were of the city. The exports of Philadelphia, in the same year, were conveyed in 361 square-rigged vessels, and 391 sloops and schooners-making in all 46,654 tons, of which there were 252,744 barrels of flour, 259,441 bushels of corn, and 110,412 bushels of flaxseed.

1772.-The following comparative facts of several years, down to this year, have been given by R. Proud, and may serve still further to illustrate the statistics of those early days, to wit:

of Exports.

In 1731, when wheat was at 2s. 6d. and flaxseed 4s. 8d. they amounted to 62,584£.

1749,

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5s. 3d.

do. 10s. 8d.

do.

148,104
155,174

187,457

I have before noted the amounts of several annual imports from England, under their several years. The last which I stated, in the year 1751, made the amount to be 190,917 £. sterling; but from and after the year 1761, they sunk greatly. No cause is assigned by Proud, who states the following annual amounts, to wit: Imports of 1761, 38,099. sterling.

do.

As the war with France began in 1756, and ended in 1763, the trade may have been so embarrassed as to have diminished much, both the ability and the safety of importation. After the peace, we know that the agitated question of "taxing America," made the people of set purpose use domestic fabrics in lieu of foreign supplies, so as by all means to diminish the trade of England with us.

1777.-In October of this year, General Howe being then in possession of Philadelphia, and many of the inhabitants gone off because of the war, or the dread of the British, an accurate census was taken by order of General Cornwallis, to wit:

Five hundred and eighty-seven of the houses were found untenanted. There were 287 stores; there were also found to be 21, 767 inhabitants, exclusive of the army and strangers.

William Sansom, Esq. who has been for several years a minute observer of the progress of the city in its increase of buildings, has

furnished the following data, to wit: