Primary Source Collection 2:
U.S. Census Data and Other Demographic Data
1860 U.S. Census
White Males White Females Total Whites Free Colored Males Free Colored Females Total Free Colored Aggregate
4th Ward 12,152 9,775 21,927 48 19 67 21,994
New York City 386,908 406,278 793,186 5,391 7,081 12,472 805,658
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Population of the United States in 1860; Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864), p. 337.

 
1870 U.S. Census (with additional data from 1850)
1870 Total 1870 Native [born in the U.S.] 1870 Foreign [born outside the U.S.] White Colored 1850 White 1850 Colored
4th Ward 23,748 10,456 13,292 23,748 0 23,123 127
New York City 942,292 523,198 419,094 929,199 13,072* 501,732 13,815
* = "Also 9 Indians and 12 Chinese"
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Ninth Census, Vol. I: The Statistics of the Population of the United States... (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872), p 212.

 
2.1: Residents of a Black Sailors' Boarding House, 1860 Census Schedules

 

The Fourth Ward:
Life and Death in New York, 1860-1870

  Primary Source Collections
  1) Maps of the Neighborhood and City
  2) The People
  3) Living Conditions
  4) Work in Industrializing New York
  5) Crime
  6) Saloons and Brothels
  7) Neighborhood Institutions
  8) The Draft Riot
  9) Images of the Neighborhood Today