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APPENDIX D

Three Estimates of the Sectoral Distribution of the

Employed Adult Population of New York City,

1746-1795

Freemen Admitted	Directory	Yellow Fever

1746-1770*	j/p0b	Deaths, 1795°

Government                              0.7%	3.7%	3-49%

Service Sector                          46.7%	59-9%	5<5-59%

Industrial Sector                      32.0%	22.9%	16.67%

Maritime-mercantile                20.6%	13-5%	23.26%
Sector

•"The Burghers of New Amsterdam and the Freemen of New York, 1675-1863," Collections of the
New York Historical Society, XVIIIfor 1885 (New York, 1886). Cf. Beverly McAnear, "The Place of the
Freeman in Old New York," New York History, 21 (1940), 418-430.

b77ie New York Directory and Register for the Year 1790 (New York, 1790): analysis based on 2,000+
names on pp. 1-70.

°New York Municipal Archives: MS, "Record of Persons who have died in the City of New York of
the putrid bilious or Yellow Fever in 1795 as reported by Health Committee," printed, with the omis-
sion of some slaves and foreigners, as "New York Deaths," New York Genealogical and Biographical Rec-
ord, 81 (1950), 146-155, 203-206.

APPENDIX	E

A Sectoral Analysis	from
a Sample of New York City Population, 1795

I. Government	9 ( 3.49%)

A. Federal	4

B. State	o

C. Local	5

II. Service Sector	146 (56.59%)

A. Professional	10

B. Retailer	30

C. Retail crafts	23

D. Building crafts	39

E. Travel and transport services	27

F. Other services	17

III. Industrial sector	43 (16.67%)

A. Textile	2

B. Leather and fur trades	17