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☞ RAPID INCREASE—We learn from the Clerk of School District No. 5, of this town, which comprises that section lying north of Reed’s tavern [the tavern seems to have been at 727 Second Avenue, above 120th Street], that, the population of that part of said district within the bounds of the village, was on the 1st of January, 1848:
Males 81; Females 81; Total 102.
And that the population of the said territory on the 1st of January, 1849, was:
Males 132; Females 135; Total 267.
Increase in one year, 65 per cent, or 105.
☞ Officer Smith, with his usual tact and expedition, has completed his duties in taking the census of the children between the ages of 5 and 16 in School district No. 1, of this village, and an enumeration of the births, deaths and marriages, in the village the last year, which are as follows:
Married 56.
Births, females 53; males 58; col’d males 2; fem’s 1.
Deaths, males 33; females 24; col’d males 2; fem 1.
Children between 5 and 16, 971—among whom there are nine pairs of twins. Average age nine years.
Lansingburgh Democrat. January 18, 1849: 2 col 3.