$56,000, 37 hands employed; Boot and Shoe Manufactories- S. Blake & Co., 120,000 pairs boots and shoes, value $85,000, 200 hands, male and female; Dunham & Lamman, 21,600 pairs boots and shoes, value $25, 000, 30 hands, male and female; Daniel J. Lane, 100, 000 pairs boots and shoes, value $60,000, 160 hands, male and female; Benj. Bramhall, 1,000 pairs boots, value $2,500; John Washburn, stoves and tin ware valued at $6,000, 4 hands employed; Wm. R. Drew, stoves and tin ware valued at $8,000, 7 hands employed.

FISHERIES. The number of vessels engaged in the cod fishery, the present year, is 45; tonnage 3,375. The freighting vessels, engaged in foreign commerce, owned by the citizens of Plymouth, to a considerable extent, are fitted out in Boston and New York.

CENSUS OF PLYMOUTH AT DIFFERENT Periods. In a work on New England, by Capt. John Smith, published in 1631, which may be found in the Massachusetts Historical Collections, vol. 3, 3d series, he says, under date of 1624; In the plantation there is about one hundred and four score persons, some cattle, but many swine and poultry. In 1629, when the colony charter was granted, the number of inhabitants mentioned in that instrument was 300, and Smith, before quoted, when speaking of Gov. Winthrop's colony, in 1631, estimates the number in Plymouth at between four and five hundred persons. De Rasieres, in 1627, stated the number of houses at fifty.

In 1701 a division of lands was made among 201 freeholders of Plymouth. Estimating their families at

6 each, the population would be 1,206, an estimate probably not far from the truth. In 1643, the males from 16 to 60 years of age, capable of bearing arms, were 146. One in the score was the rate of military service. In 1646, the Freemen and Townsmen (voters) were 79; 1670, 51; 1683, 55; 1689, 75.

In 1764, including 77 colored persons and 48 Indians, the number of inhabitants was 2,225; 1776, 2,655; 1783, 2,380. According to the United States census in 1790, 2,995; 1800, 3,524; 1810, 4,228; 1820, 4,348; 1830, 4,758; 1840, 5,281. The population, as returned June 1, 1850, was 6,026.

The number of dwelling houses, including those at Manomet ponds, is 877.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The Court House, standing in Court Square, (in early times called Framing Green,) was built in 1820, and is fitted up in the best manner, for accommodating the courts of law, and the public officers of the county; having fire-proof apartments for the safe keeping of records. The jail and dwelling-, house attached to it, were built about the same time. The first prison was erected in 1641, and was 22 feet by 16, two stories high, and stood near Prison Brook, in Summer Street, where the house lately owned by Nathaniel Russell, Esq., stands. The second jail stood in the same street, on the lot owned by Capt. Ichabod Davie; and the third where the Court House above described, stands. It is gratifying to remark, that though the size of these necessary instruments of terror to evil doers, has been successively enlarged, there seems to have been, for many years past, less occasion for their use.

The Town House is situated in Town Square. The Alms House, built of brick, is situated on Town Brook. Pilgrim Hall has been already described.

CHURCHES. There are two Congregational Societies in the village, one at Monomet Ponds, one at Eel River; one Episcopalian, one Baptist, one Universalist, and one Christian Society.

ERRATA. The date of the deaths of Rose Standish and Wm. Mullins, p. 120, should read 1621 instead 1620-Edward Everett's Oration of Dec. 20, 1826, p. 26, should read Dec. 22nd, 1824-The age of Hon. John Howland, as named on p. 42, should read in the 95th instead of the 89th-The naine of Wm. Crow, on p. 42, should read Wm. Crowe-The aggregate, 64,735, on p. 97, should read 64,835.

NOTE. The length of Leyden Street, as mentioned by De Rasieres, in his letter, p. 116, is erroneous, the actual measurement being 385 yards. There seems also an error, p. 114, in the estimated width of the Sand Bank, or Beach, no part of which is even now so narrow as 20 paces.

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APPENDIX.

EARLY CORRESPONDENCE OF THE PILGRIMS.

The following letters have been obtained, by special request, from the venerable Judge Mitchell, of Bridgewater, whose well known research has so greatly promoted the illustration of our early history. The early domestic correspondence between the Pilgrims is mostly lost, and for that reason alone to say nothing of the excellent spirit they manifest, these letters are highly interesting. The note of explanation, which follows the letters, was prepared by Judge Mitchell.

Loving and kind Uncle

My hearty and kind salutation I do here desire to tender unto you, hoping and wishing your and your's well being both in soul and body. I shall here communicate unto you a sad dispensation of the Lord toward me, in the taking away from me out of this life my most dear and tender mother, the which unto me indeed is a great loss, not only missing her most tender affection to me and over me, the which is very much, but also the godly example of piety, by the which, as by her counsel and godly persuasions she did labor to bring me, and us all here with her, to see and experience more and more the sweetness of walking in the ways of God, in obeying of him and in keeping close unto him, the missing of which you may easily judge cannot but be sad unto us here. Nevertheless we do desire, seeing it thus is the will of our God to administer unto us, having appointed unto all once to die, to labor to be contented, and to submit unto the will of our God considering the goodness of the Almighty even in this providence, the which, had it been long before, would have been more sad, in respect of my minority and young years; it being always her desire to see me to come to age before she should depart this life, the which mercy the Lord hath granted unto us, for I am now 23 years of age, and able sundry years ago, through the mercy and goodness of the Lord my God, to subsist in the world by my father's trade, the which indeed is a good consideration, and gives me occasion to awaken my soul and yet to be thankful to God, especially when I mind the sadness she was in of late being very weakly, out of which the Lord has delivered her, having taken her out of this sad and toilsome life, a world of misery, and has brought her to the kingdom of his dear son, to an inheritance, immortal in light. She deceased this life on the 25 March, 1662. Thus, most loving uncle, I have communicated my sad thoughts, and do further aoquaint you, that I have received a letter from you, bearing date 23 April, 1661, in the which I understand concerning all your healths, at the hearing of which I am very glad. I do also wish my cousin Elizabeth much joy with her daughter that God has given her to her 6 sons. I do also wish my cousin Sarah much joy in her married estate. And as touching your enclosed letter, for Mr. Preserved May, I have delivered it and do return an answer. And now as touching my two sisters, and their husbands and children, they are well, and do most heartily remember their loves unto you and their cousins, and I pray remember me most kindly to your wife and unto all my loving cousins, the which by name I cannot. I also pray you, Uncle, do so much as to present my respicts and my sisters' and their husbands' to my aunt Jean Gunn and my cousin Joseph, and acquaint her concerning my dear mother's departing. I would have writ to her also, but I wanted time, the ship being to go away;