Collection Name
Collection Name
About
About
Slaves and the Underground Railroad
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
acaa282
IDEntry
3294
Creator
J. Thomas Scharf
Date
1882
Collection Location
Allegany County, Maryland
Coverage
Allegany County (Md.), 1890-2008
Body
| Counties | 1880 | 1870 | 1860 | 1850 | 1840 | 1830 | 1820 | 1810 | 1800 | 1790 | |
| Allegany | 1,531 | 1,166 | 467 | 412 | 215 | 222 | 195 | 113 | 101 | 12 | |
| Anne Arundel | 13,879 | 11,732 | 4,864 | 4,602 | 5,083 | 4,076 | 3,382 | 2,536 | 1,833 | 804 | |
| Baltimore | 47,921 | 29,911 | 29,075 | 21,453 | 17,888 | 12,489 | 7,208 | 4,307 | 927 | ||
| Calvert | 5,696 | 5,533 | 1,841 | 1,530 | 1,474 | 1,213 | 694 | 388 | 307 | 136 | |
| Caroline | 4,166 | 3,758 | 2,786 | 2,788 | 1,720 | 1,662 | 1,390 | 1,001 | 602 | 421 | |
| Carroll | 2,284 | 2,175 | 1,225 | 974 | 898 | ||||||
| Cecil | 4,466 | 4,014 | 2,918 | 2,623 | 2,551 | 2,229 | 1,783 | 947 | 373 | 163 | |
| Charles | 10,852 | 9,318 | 1,068 | 913 | 819 | 851 | 567 | 412 | 571 | 404 | |
| Dorchester | 8,472 | 7,556 | 4,684 | 3,848 | 3,987 | 3,000 | 2,496 | 2,661 | 2,365 | 528 | |
| Frederick | 7,508 | 7,572 | 4,957 | 3,760 | 2,985 | 2,716 | 1,777 | 783 | 473 | 213 | |
| Garrett | 112 | ||||||||||
| Harford | 6,649 | 4,855 | 3,644 | 2,777 | 2,436 | 2,058 | 1,387 | 2,221 | 1,344 | 775 | |
| Howard | 4,398 | 3,474 | 1,395 | ||||||||
| Kent | 7,207 | 7,732 | 3,411 | 3,143 | 2,491 | 2,266 | 2,067 | 1,979 | 1,786 | 655 | |
| Montgomery | 9,151 | 7,434 | 1,552 | 1,311 | 1,313 | 1,266 | 922 | 677 | 262 | 294 | |
| Prince George's | 12,313 | 9,780 | 1,198 | 1,138 | 1,080 | 1,202 | 1,096 | 4,929 | 648 | 164 | |
| Queen Anne's | 7,192 | 6,592 | 3,372 | 3,278 | 2,541 | 2,866 | 2,138 | 2,738 | 1,025 | 618 | |
| St Mary's | 8,689 | 7,726 | 1,866 | 1,633 | 1,393 | 1,179 | 894 | 636 | 622 | 343 | |
| Somerset | 8,637 | 7,274 | 4,571 | 3,483 | 2,646 | 2,239 | 1,954 | 1,058 | 586 | 268 | |
| Talbot | 7,327 | 6,666 | 2,964 | 2,593 | 2,340 | 2,483 | 2,234 | 2,103 | 1,591 | 1,076 | |
| Washington | 3,064 | 2,838 | 1,677 | 1,828 | 1,580 | 1,082 | 627 | 483 | 342 | 64 | |
| Wicomico | 5,073 | 4,406 | |||||||||
| Worcester | 6,984 | 5,869 | 3,571 | 3,014 | 3,073 | 2,430 | 1,638 | 1,054 | 449 | 178 | |
| Total | 209,914 | 175,391 | 83,942 | 74,723 | 62,078 | 52,938 | 39,730 | 33,927 | 19,587 | 8,043 | |
Notes
1 The returns for the census of 1880 for Baltimore City and Baltimore County are given separately. In the preceding enumerations the two are combined as above. The colored population of Baltimore City in 1880 was 53,703, and of Baltimore County 10,561.
2 The colored population included 5 Chinese, 1 Japanese, and 11 Indians.