PART II EMIGRANT PERSPECTIVE
Ireland represented by far the largest emigrant group in Massachusetts and demonstrated a preference for the Boston area. One quarter of Boston’s residents (approximately 35,262) in 1850 were born in Ireland. (US Census. Cohn, 2009, 172) Further developments between 1850 and 1860 ( 1860 US Census): Boston foreign-born Irish increased from approximately 35,262 to 45,911 by 1860, while Irish-born residents in Massachusetts increased by a little less than 70,000 - from approximately 116,358 to 185,434. New York New York was the major immigrant port for three-quarters of all European arrivals between 1820 and 1860, although little more than 50 percent during the 1820s (Cohn, 2009, 156). Raymond Cohn determined from shipping records that 4.84 million passengers entered the US 1815-60. He adjusted this number, by including the addition of 200,000 who came through Canada after 1830, 115,000 who arrived between 1815 and 1819, and an unknown number of migrants who came through Canada before 1830. His adjusted total of all US immigrants between 1815 and 1860 was 5.4 million.
Fig. 28. The Port of New York Irish immigrants settled around the Battery in the foreground, along the East River in Ward 4 on the right, and Ward 6 (Five Points) in the upper center of this image, just east of Broadway, which can be seen running northward from the Battery. ---------------------------
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