FIGURE 4.1 POPULATION OF THE ENGLISH NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

FIGURE 4.1 POPULATION OF THE ENGLISH NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

The colonial population grew at a steadily accelerating rate during the seventeenth century. New England and the southern colonies each accounted for about half the total colonial population until after 1680, when growth in Pennsylvania and New York contributed to a surge in the population of the middle colonies.