Receipts. Receipts of the American Colonization Society, MASSACHUSETTS. Massachusetts Colonization Society, through Deacon E. Kimball, Treasurer.... Falmouth-4th July collection, per Rev. H. B. Hooker...... Wareham-Collection in Congregational Church....... CONNECTICUT. Fairfield Mrs. Elizabeth Sherman, to constitute Dea. Charles Bennet a life member of the A. C. S.,$30, 4th July collection in the First Cong.Church, by their pastor, $17 33.. NEW YORK. bridge-4th July collection in Presbyterian Church, by the Wm. B. Barton, pastor, 15 00 d--Rev. Ethan Osborn.. lle-Collection in PresbyChurch....... 287 gton-4th July collection in ion in the Wesley Cha 4th July collection in Church, by Rev. Edward rth, pastor...... Joseph Janney, his bscription...... rg-Collection in the Church, per Rev. E. Fre, D. D., $20 50, olonization Society, 30 is to constitute eorge W. McPhail a - of the A. C. S., E. Lomax, Treas h July collection Mr. Atki 5, 4th Ju Rev. M B, 4th J ev. A Ju ch, Lee J Web R. A. McKee, Rev. R. A Johnston, William Kinnard, Rev. Carey A. Wylie, John W. Walker, W. N. Fishback, Lylle Royston, Spilman & Brown, and James Royston, each $5, Fountain Rothwell, $2 50, Jas. W. Bates, $1... Madison Co. 78 50 'Squire Turner, Curtis Field, Caldwell Campbell, Wm. Moran, and Mrs. Anne J. Wallace, each $20, Judge Daniel Breck, D. W. R. Letcher, Thomas H. Irvin, Thompson Burnam, and David Irvin, each $10, E. H. Field, W. R. Green, Samuel H. Stevenson, Humphrey Jones, E. L. Shackelford, C. F. Burnam, Thomas Royston, Rev. Jaines C. Barnes, Joseph Turner, Allen Anderson, David McChord, Daniel F. Green, Wm. Hawkins, Cyrus Turner, L. D. Bennett, Willian Shearer, Elias Moberley, Samuel Campbell, William Morse, and Robert Cochran, each $5, Jackson Davis, $3, A. W. Dinsmore, $1.. 254 00 Clark Co.-James Wornell, John W. Redmon, and Stephen D. Lewis, each $20.... Bourbon Co-Geo. W. Williams, A. H. Wright, E. S. Dudley, H. Clay, jr., John R. Thornton, Robert Clark, James R.Wright, John L. Hickman, Henry Boyer, Jeremiah Duncan, H. Clay, sen., D. P. Beelinger, John Hedges, and Thos. L. Cunningham, each $20, W. C. Lyle, Jesse Kennedy, Algernon S. Smith, Benj. F. Bedford, and John Gass, each $10, W. Talbott, Samuel Brooks, C. P.Talbott, S. D. Talbott, and John Clay, each $5, Collection 4th of July in Christian Church, Paris, $315, Collection 4th of July in St. Peter's Church, Paris, $10... Fayette Co.-Owen D. Winn, Robert Marshall, James Valandingham, John Gess, Richard Spurr, and Thomas H. Shelby, each $30, Waller Bullock, Edmund Bullock, E. R. Sayre, Isaac P. Shelby, A. H. Armstrong, 60 00 368 15 FOR REPOSITORY. NEW HAMPSHIRE.-Concord- MASSACHUSETTS.-West Brad- Woodruff. VIRGINIA. Staunton-Robert S. Brooke, in full. . . . . . . KENTUCKY.-Sharpsburg-G. Gordon, to be sent to Rev. R. F. Caldwell and Thomas Hill, Esq. and W. C. Prewitt, each $20.. 300 00 OHIO.-Hillsboro'-Sam'l Linn, 1.00 23 00 1 00 5.00 3 00 150 34 50 2,443 05 .$2,477 55 ulation in Marshpee. The colored persons are, at present, mostly mixtures of Indians and negroes in that place. The Colored Population of Massachusetts. THE colored population of Mas-preceding censuses, the colored greatsachusetts embrace not only the purely preponderated over the white popblacks of the African race, and their various mixtures with the whites, commonly called mulattoes, but also some mixtures of the whites, and others with some of the Indian tribes, particularly at Marshpee. The number of those who are the pure descendants of the African race, is believed to constitute but a very small part of the colored population in this Commonwealth, while most of them are a mixed breed of whites with Indians and negroes, and have been so, to a great degree, for the last fifty years or more. In 1840, according to the United States census, Marshpee contained 9 white males and 6 white females; 146 colored males and 148 colored females; total, 15 whites and 294 colored persons. According to the According to a Provincial census, finished in 1765, the colored population in the returns of 182 towns, was 4,978; to which if we add 147, the number according to the United States census for 16 towns in 1790, which were not returned in 1765, and 74 for their number in Newbury and Newburyport, whose returns in 1765 did not specify the color-this last number being in proportion to the number in those towns in 1790— the estimated number of the colored population in Massachusetts in 1765, would be 5,199; and accordingly, with the aid of the United States censuses, we construct tables I and II. TABLE I-Exhibiting the number of the colored population and their proportion to the whites, in Massachusetts, according to the censuses. TABLE II-Exhibiting the number of the whites, of the colored, and of the whole population, according to the censuses, together with their increase during six periods. 44,058 11.63 49,195 11.63 In 1765 238,950 5,199 244,149 "1790 373,324 5,463 378,787 134,374 56.23 264 5.07 134,538 55.14 "1800 416,393 6,452 422,845 | 43,069 11.53 989 18.10 "1810 465,303 6,737 472,040 48,910 11.74 285 4.41 "1820 516,547 6,740 523,287 51,244 11.01 3 .04 51,247 10.85 "1830 603,363 7,045 610,408 86,816 16.80 305 4.52 87,121 16.64 1840 729,031 8,669 737,700 125,668 20.58 1,624 23.05 127,292 20.85 It is apparent that the increase of the colored population during the several periods has been very unequal, and also that it has been much less than that of the whites, with two exceptions, namely, from 1790 to 1800, and from 1830 to 1840. These exceptions may have been, in part at least, owing to the immigration of blacks from other States. The increase of the blacks during the 75 years from 1765 to 1840, was 3,470, or 66.74 per cent.; which is less than one-third of that (205.09 per cent.) of the whites. During the 25 years from 1765 to 1790, it was only 264, or 5.07 per cent.; which is not one-eleventh part of that (56.23 per cent.) of the whites. During the 50 years from 1790 to 1840, it was 3,206, or 58.66 per cent.; which is a little more than three-fifths of 95.28 per cent. that of the whites. The small increase of the colored population from 1765 to 1790, being only 264, or 5.07 per cent., while that of the whites was 56.23 per cent., or over eleven times as great, we ascribe chiefly to the effects of the revolutionary war on that class, conjoined with their degraded condition among the whites. Before the war, most of them were substantially in the condition of slaves. Public senti Du ment, however, partly by the advance of a correct moral sentiment in the community, and partly by the increasing sentiment for freedom from British rule, which stimulated the colonists to gain their own freedom, had been, to a great degree, awakened to the right and propriety of the blacks enjoying their freedom; and, accordingly, in 1776, slavery was virtually abloished in Massachusetts by an act of the legislature, after having existed there about a century. ring the revolutionary war many of the slaves were offered their freedom on condition of their enlisting in the army. Medical men, attached to the army, have expressed their full conviction that the mortality was much greater among the blacks than among the whites, in the army of the revolution. This is to be expected, from their degraded condition, among a population in which the whites so greatly predominated, in a time of war no less than in a time of peace. The great increase of the whites during these 25 years, being nearly as great as that during any period of 30 years since, is to be referred to the settlement of the western part of the commonwealth, which, in 1765, was almost a wilderness. substantially or prospectively abolished in that State, and the blacks were admitted to nearly equal privileges with the whites, which they have enjoyed ever since. The consequence was, that some blacks who had, before 1810, left New York,then a slave State, and settled in Massachu these 10 years to return to New York, their native State, after it became free, thus reducing the number of blacks in Massachusetts in 1820. During the 10 years from 1790 to 1800, the increase of the blacks was 989,or 18.10 per cent.; which is more than one and a half times that of the whites in Massachusetts, and yet this was only about half the average increase of the whole population of the United States. This increase of 18 per cent. of the blacks is undoubted-setts, a free State, were known during ly less than their natural increase would be under the most favorable circumstances of society; but when we consider their condition-chiefly as servants, with some few in almost every town, and subjected to many disadvantages unfavorable to their physical comfort and enjoyment, to their moral improvement, and even to life-among the predominant class, the whites, even this increase of theirs was probably owing, in part at least, to emigration into Massachusetts, now made free to them, virtually by the legislature in 1776, and absolutely by the State Constitution in 1780. But, in 1790, the territory of Massachusetts was mostly divided into incorporated towns, and from that time we may consider the emigration of the whites out of the State as commenc-gration of the blacks out of the coming, which has continued since, especially for about a quarter of a century. This accounts for the small increase of the whites from 1790 to 1800. From 1800 to 1810, the increase of the blacks was only 285, or 4.41 per cent.; which is less than half that of the whites, who emigrated out of the State in large numbers, and with them probably a portion of the blacks. From 1810 to 1820, the increase of the blacks was only 3, or 0.4 per cent., which is less than one 222d part of that of the whites. This very small increase may be very much accounted for by the three following causes: 1. In 1813 and in 1817, important changes were made in the laws of New York, by which slavery was 2. During the war of 1812 to 1815, some colored persons joined the army, and never returned; the mortality of the blacks in the army being presumed to have been much greater than that of the whites. At least one company of blacks was formed in Boston during the war of 1812, and placed under the command of Capt. Macintosh. Major who was in the service during the whole of that war, thinks that the mortality of the blacks in the army was three times as great as that of the whites during that war. 3. The third cause was the emi monwealth. The American Colonization Society was formed at Washington in 1816. "In 1817, two agents were sent by the Society to examine the western coast of Africa, for a suitable spot for the colony.— They selected a position on the Sherbro, and in February, 1820, the first vessel was despatched, with 88 colonists." We are unable to say whether this expedition affected the number of the colored population in Massachusetts during this period. But it is stated in the third Annual Report of the Colonization Society, of the date of February 8, 1820, that "it is but a few years since Capt. Paul Cuffee (who was born in New Bedford, and who for many years sailed out of Westport in his own vessel on various voyages) carried thirty-eight |