Philippines ravaged the northeastern coastal areas of the province of Albay. By the end of the 1700s, Albay had 12,339 native families and 146 Spanish Filipino families. In the 1800s, the natives numbered 103,955 whereas the mestizos numbered 2,598; this, further broken down to 579 Spanish-Mestizos and 933 Chinese-Mestizos.

By year 1818, a new census which included the islands of Masbate, Catanduanes, and Ticao,