First report to the General Assembly of Rhode Island, relative to the registry and returns of births, marriages, and deaths, in the state, for the year ending May 31, 1853 / prepared under the direction of Asa Potter.

  • Rhode Island General Assembly
Date:
1854
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Credit: First report to the General Assembly of Rhode Island, relative to the registry and returns of births, marriages, and deaths, in the state, for the year ending May 31, 1853 / prepared under the direction of Asa Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    f ! 1852-53.] NATIVITIES OF THE MARRIED. 75 have from eight, of the ten towns constituting it; and in this par- ticular, we are gratified to find both Cumberland and Smithfield in an especial manner, attending more faithfully to their duty, and to the interests of the community. There were 568 marriages in the County; from which it appears that those, who thus changed their condition, for better or worse, were, in the Population re- presented, (76,911, deducting 10,617 for the towns not heard from,) 1 in every 67.703, or 1.477 per cent. The folLowing were the proportion and percentage of Nativities ; viz. American grooms, 1 in 1.826, or 54.754 per cent. Foreign « 1 « 2.629, 38.028 Unknown 1 « 13.853, 7.218 « American brides, 1 in 1.832, or 54.577 per cent. Foreign 1 2.704, 36.972 Unknown « 1 11,833, 8.451 Washington County has also aroused from its lethargy, and we have Returns from every town in it The number of mar- riages were 94; showing that the proportion of the inhabitants, who abandoned the state of single blessedness, was 1 in every 92.712, or 1.078 per cent. Of the grooms, one more than of brides, was of American, and one less of Foreign origin; and an equal number of each belonged to the Unknown region. The following were the proportion and percentage of Nativi- ties ; viz. American gi'ooras, 1 in 1.068, or 93.617 per cent. Foreign 1 « 47.000, 2.128 Unknown 1 23.500, 4.255 American brides, 1 in 1.080, or 92.553 per cent. Foreign 1 31,333, 3.192 Unknown 1 23.500, 4.255 By the Tabular Recapitulation, it will be found there were, in 1 the State, 831 marriages in a represented Population of 135,670; showing that the number of individuals, who assumed this new social position in the community, was 1 in every 81.636, or 1.225 per cent, of the inhabitants. The marriages were at the rate of one among every 163 inhabitants ; in Massachusetts (by the Re- I port for 1851,) they were one among 102. In Bristol County there • was one marriage among every 163 inhabitants; in Kent County,
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