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1900 Aggregate Census Population Data for Pitt County, Part ICensus 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 |