"I inclose you also a copy of our census written in black ink so far as we have actual returns, & supplied by conjecture in red ink where we have no returns. But the conjectures are known to be very near the truth. Making very small allowance for omissions which we know to have been very great, we are certainly above 4. milions, probably about 4,100,000." -- TJ to William Short, Aug. 29, 1791

"I inclose you a copy of our census, which so far as it is written in black ink is founded on actual returns, what is in red ink being conjectural, but very near the truth. Making very small allowance for omissions which we know to have been very great, we may safely say we are above four millions." -- TJ to William Carmichael, Aug. 24, 1791