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1900 Aggregate Census Population Data for Pitt County, Part I
Census Reports

Volume I
 
 
 

Twelfth Census of the United States,

Taken in the Year 1900
 
 

William R. Merriam, Director
 
 
 

P O P U L A T I O N

Part I
 

Prepared Under the Supervision of William C. Hunt,

Chief Statistician for Population
 
 

Washington

United States Census Office

1901



COUNTIES

Table 4.--Population of States and Territories by Counties, at Each Census: 1790-1900

p. 33
Pitt County

1900 -- 30,889
 

MINOR CIVIL DIVISIONS

Table 5.--Population of States and Territories by Minor Civil Divisions: 1890 and 1900

p. 293
1900

Pitt County -- 30,889
Beaverdam township -- 1,312
Belvoir township -- 1,342
Bethel township, including Bethel town -- 2,279
Bethel town -- 457
Carolina township, including Keelsville town -- 1,604
Keelsville town -- 42
Chicod township, including Grimesland town -- 3,721
Grimesland town -- 277
Contentnea township, including Ayden and Winterville towns and part of Grifton town -- 4,047
Ayden town -- 557
Grifton town (part of) -- 200
Total for Grifton town, in Contentnea and Swift Creek townships -- 229
Winterville town -- 243
Falkland township, including Falkland town -- 2,139
Falkland town -- 139
Farmville township, including Farmville town and Marlboro village -- 2,361
Farmville town -- 262
Marlboro village -- 111
Greenville township, including Greenville town -- 7,323
Greenville town -- 2,565
Pactolus township, including Pactolus town -- 1,679
Pactolus town -- 52
Swift Creek township, including Centerville village and part of Grifton town -- 3,082
Grifton town (part of ) -- 29
 

SEX, GENERAL NATIVITY, AND COLOR

Table 18.--Male and Female and Native and Foreign Born Population, by Counties: 1880 to 1900

p. 515
1900

Pitt County
  Males -- 15,500
  Females -- 15,389
  Native Born -- 30,881
  Foreign Born -- 8
 

Table 19.--White , negro, and Indian population , by counties: 1880-1900

p. 551
1900

Pitt County
  White -- 15,397
  Negro -- 15,492
  Indian -- ----
 

Table 22.--Native and Foreign Born and White and Colored Population, Classified by Sex, by
Counties:  1900

p. 595
Pitt County

Native Born
  Males -- 15,494
  Females -- 15,387
Foreign Born
  Males -- 6
  Females -- 2
Native White--Native Parents
  Males -- 7,911
  Females -- 7,464
Native White--Foreign Parents
  Males -- 8
  Females -- 6
Foreign White
  Males -- 6
  Females -- 2
Total Colored (Persons of negro descent, Chinese, Japanese, and Indians)
  Males -- 7,575
  Females -- 7,917
Negro (Includes all persons of negro descent)
  Males -- 7,575
  Females -- 7,917
 

COUNTRY OF BIRTH

Table 34.--Foreign Born Population, Distributed According to Country of Birth, by Counties: 1900

p. 774
Pitt County

Total foreign born -- 8
  France -- 1
  Germany -- 1
  Ireland -- 2
  Other countries -- 4
 

CITIZENSHIP , AND YEARS IN THE UNITED STATES

Table 92.--Total Males 21 Years of Age and Over, Classified by General Nativity, Color, Citizenship, and Literacy , by Counties: 1900

p. 993
Pitt County

Aggregate -- 6,872
  Native White
     Literate -- 2,973
     Illiterate -- 815
  Native Negro
     Literate -- 1,276
     Illiterate -- 1,804
  Foreign Born
    Naturalized
        Literate -- 3
           First papers filed
                  Illiterate -- 1


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