New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . the western part of Bergen County, or-ganized in 1837. In these new allotments BergenCounty suffered heavily, being reduced in popula-tion from twentj^-two thousand five hundred in1830 to thirteen thousand in 1840. Atlantic, withits eight thousand five hundred inhabitants, re-duced Gloucester from twenty-eight thousand fivehundred to twenty-five thousand five had about nine thousand five hundredpeople, of whom a third were in Jersey City. Inthe erection of Mercer County, which containedtwenty-one thousand five
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . the western part of Bergen County, or-ganized in 1837. In these new allotments BergenCounty suffered heavily, being reduced in popula-tion from twentj^-two thousand five hundred in1830 to thirteen thousand in 1840. Atlantic, withits eight thousand five hundred inhabitants, re-duced Gloucester from twenty-eight thousand fivehundred to twenty-five thousand five had about nine thousand five hundredpeople, of whom a third were in Jersey City. Inthe erection of Mercer County, which containedtwenty-one thousand five hundred inhabitants,Hunterdon shrunk from thirty-one thousand totwenty-four thousand eight hundred. Of this dif-ference four thousand were in the City of Tren-ton. Essex, in spite of its growth, was visibly af-fected by the loss of Passaic and by the disastersof the panic of 1837, increasing but two thousandfive hundred during the decade. From 1830 to1840 Burlington, Cumberland, Morris, Salem,Somerset, and Sussex remained almost stationary. 276 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. Middlesex lost about one thousand, and Cape May,after half a century had succeeded with five thou-sand three hundred inhabitants in doubling herpopulation, the same being true of Monmouthwith thirty-three thousand people. The enumeration of 1850 presents in the statusof Essex and Hudson Counties some striking con-trasts. From forty-five thousand Essex hadleaped in ten years to seventy-four thousand; Hud-son with twenty-two thousand had more thandoubled its population. Passaic County, in anincrease of four thousand, showed the influence ofPaterson. Two new counties—Camden, estab-lished in 1844, and Ocean, in 1850—had drawnlargely from Gloucester and Monmouth Counties,from which they were respectively set off. Cam-den County commenced life with twenty-five thou-sand five hundred inhabitants, Gloucester there-by having been reduced from twenty-five thousandfive hundred to fourteen thousand five hundred,having in 18
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