Quoting the book Marriage Records before 1699 90% of the population of the American colonies in 1699 were persons of English birth or parentage. Counting the Sweedes of Deleware, the Dutch of New York, the handful of Germans in Pennsylvania, and the small group of French Huguenots in New Rochelle, there was still a vast percentage of English, New England and Virginia being populated almost entirely by them. 100 years later, when the government took it's first census in 1790, we find that out of a total population of 2,800,000 , some 1,300,000 were of English birth and parentage. The Scots came next with 180,000 , the Germans with 156,000, the Dutch with 54,000 , the Irish with 45,000, and the French with but a scant 13,000.