Add to these totals of known Irish residents in Massachusetts in 1790 the approximate 10.000 Irish names .appearing in the Colonial Records published by the New England Historical Society. in the probate and land records of Massachusetts. and in the town and country history and historical collections like those of the Essex Institute. and the mystery deepens with relation to this thing called national origins. particularly when these figures are compared with the 3.732 lone persons of Irish descent indicated by our census records. The Century of Population Growth shows there to hav6 been 8.614 people of Irish descent in Pennsylvania in 1790. If this conclusion be true. what in the world became of the descendents of Irish immigrants. numbering. according to authentic historical documents. 12.000 per year. who came to the Province of Pennsylvania between the years 1726 and 1.750? More than that. what became of the 18.000 Irish immigrants who came to America during the first half of the year 1773 alone? The census records upon which the natioualorigins 1asis of immigration quotas is builded shows there to have been 5.008 persons of Irish descent in Maryland. and yet the records of the " Continental Army show that upward of 4.600 Revolutionaty soldiers of Irish names enlisted in Maryland. An exact count of Irish haines shown in the land records of Maryland of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries brings a total of 2.100. hlie descendents of all of these people had entirely disappeared at the time the first census was taken. seemingly. New York is shown by the Century of Population Growth to have had 2.525 people of Irish descent in 1790.
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