Hunterdon County, 4966 4379 9316 191 1301| 20153 Suflex do. 4963 49309094 65} 43 19500 400 Burlington do. Monmouth do. Morris do. Middlefex do. 399 Gloucefter do. Bergen do. 328 22904944 192 23011. 12601 2810 2390 5130 147 1810 12296 2679 239 4816 374 17- 10437 2147 196 387 138 120 8248 631 bool 45251 11 141 18228-[175.[11423] 2571 84130 Total. According to the foregoing ftatement, the average annual increafe of population in this State, fince 1738, has been two thoufand fix hundred and thirty, exclufive of emigrations, which, since 1783, have been numerous to the country weft of the Allegany mountains. These emigrations will leffon in proportion as the inhabitants turn their attention to manufactures. RELIGION AND CHARACTER. There are in this State about fifty Prefbyterian congregations, fubject to the care of three Prefbyteries, viz. That of New-York, of New-Bruntwick and Philadelphia. A part of the charge of New-York and Philadelphia Prefbyteries lies in New-Jerley, and part in their own refpeclive States. Befides these, there are upwards of forty congregations of Friends, thirty of the Baptifts, twenty-five of Epifcopalians, twenty-eight of Dutch Reformed, befides Methodifts and a lettlement of Moravians. All these religious denominations live together in peace and harmony, and worship Almighty God agreeably to the dictates of their own consciences; they are not compelled to attend or fupport any worship contrary to their own faith and judgment. All proteftant inhabitants of peaceable behaviour are eligible to the ci vil offices of the State. Many circumstances concur to render the character of the inhabitants various in different parts of the State. They are a collection of Low Dutch, Germans, English, Scotch, Irish, and New-Englanders, or their defcendants. National attachment and mutual convenience have generally induced these several kinds of people to fettle together in a body, and in this way their peculiar national manners, cuftoms and characters, are fill preferved, cfpecially among the poorer clafs of people, who have little intercourse with any but thofe of their own nation. Religion, although its tendency is to unite people in thofe things that are effential to happinefs, occafions wide differences as to manners, customs, and even character. The Prefbyterian, the Quaker, the Epifcopalian, the Baptift, the German and Low Dutch Calvinift, the Methodist and the Moravian, have each their distinguishing characteristics, cither in their worship, their difcipline, or their drefs. There is ftill another characteristical difference, diftinct from either of the others, which arifes from the intercourfe of the inhabitants with different States. The people in Weft-Jerfey trade to Philadelphia, and of courfe imitate their fashions and imbibe their manners. The inhabиants of Eaft. |