John O. Raum.The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. — J.E. Potter and Company, 1877. — Vol. 1. — P. 278."Jersey City is divided into sixteen wards and contained in 1850 a population of 6,856; in 1860, 29,226; and in 1870, 82,546. The population of this city has increased with wonderful rapidity having more than trebled within the last decade."