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Originally Posted by dreadnought
I don't know what article you read, but New York didn't become the most populous city until the opening of the Erie canal in the early 1800s. Philadelphia was the colonial-era largest city, and the second largest English-speaking city in the world (behind London, obviously.)
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New York has been the largest city for every US Census going back to 1790. Unless you mean Philadelphia and it's adjecent municipalities that have been merged into the city. In such a case, you'd have to account for Brooklyn, an independent city until it was merged into the current municipal boundaries of NYC in 1898.