Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 1.18 of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19.:

...and Others. These lists include shipments to the West India Islands and to New England, as well as Virginia. Although the latter destination was at the period deemed quite a general one south of New England , there are more lists ostensibly for New England than Virginia. The lists themselves seem to offer no more foundation for the stigmatizing term convict than in some instances that they were rebels ...
Max. Freq. Min. Freq.
Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
New England (United States) 12,382 16 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Georgia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (New Mexico, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Pennsylvania, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Pennsylvania, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (West Virginia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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