Year(s)
|
State
|
2010 Population
|
FORMER CAPITAL
|
1776-1777, 1788-1797
|
New York
|
8,175,000
|
New York
|
1776-1780
|
Virginia
|
14,000
|
Williamsburg
|
1776-1784 (joint)
|
New Jersey
|
10,000
|
Burlington
|
1776-1784 (joint)
|
New Jersey
|
51,000
|
Perth Amboy
|
1776-1786
|
South Carolina
|
120,000
|
Charleston
|
1776-1789
|
North Carolina
|
30,000
|
New Bern
|
1776-1799
|
Pennsylvania
|
1,526,000
|
Philadelphia
|
1776-1808
|
New Hampshire
|
14,000
|
Exeter
|
1776-1853 (rotating)
|
Rhode Island
|
23,000
|
Bristol
|
1776-1853 (rotating)
|
Rhode Island
|
13,000
|
East Greenwich
|
1776-1853 (rotating)
|
Rhode Island
|
31,000
|
South Kingstown
|
1776-1853 (rotating), 1854-1899 (alternating)
|
Rhode Island
|
25,000
|
Newport
|
1777
|
New York
|
24,000
|
Kingston
|
1777
|
New York
|
6,000
|
Hurley
|
1777-1788
|
New York
|
33,000
|
Poughkeepsie
|
1789-1794
|
North Carolina
|
201,000
|
Fayetteville
|
1791-1805
|
Vermont
|
4,000
|
Windsor
|
1796-1807, 1807-1812, 1817-1818
|
Tennessee
|
179,000
|
Knoxville
|
1799-1812
|
Pennsylvania
|
59,000
|
Lancaster
|
1803-1810, 1812-1816
|
Ohio
|
22,000
|
Chillicothe
|
1807
|
Tennessee
|
6,000
|
Kingston
|
1810-1812
|
Ohio
|
25,000
|
Zanesville
|
1818-1826
|
Tennessee
|
109,000
|
Murfreesboro
|
1863-1870, 1875-1885
|
West Virginia
|
28,000
|
Wheeling
|
1907-1910
|
Oklahoma
|
10,000
|
Guthrie
|
|