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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
en of six of the American provinces, was greater singly than that of all Canada, and the aggregate in America exceeded that in Canada fourteen fold. Of persons of African lineage the home was chiefly determined by climate. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine may have had three thousand negroes; Rhode Island, four thousand five hundred; Connecticut, three thousand five hundred; all New England, therefore, about eleven thousand. New York alone had not far from eleven thousand; O'Callaghan's Documentary History of New-York, III., 843. New Jersey, about half that number; Pennsyl- chap. VI.} 1754. vania, with Delaware, eleven thousand; Maryland, forty-four thousand; the Central Colonies, collectively, seventy-one thousand. In Virginia there were not less than one hundred and sixteen thousand; in North Carolina, perhaps more than twenty thousand; in South Carolina, full forty thousand; in Georgia, about two thousand; so that the country south of the Potomac, may have had
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., A Revolutionary Parole. (search)
A Revolutionary Parole. British officers promise to remain in the quarters assigned, within the limits:— Beginning at Swan's shop on Charlestown Neck, the Cambridge road up to the crossway to Fort No. 3, and from Learned's tavern the Cambridge road on to the common to the Menotomy road, up said road to Cooper's tavern, taking in the Menotomy pond, but not to pass the beach on the south, west, or north sides thereof, from Cooper's tavern down to the east end of Benjamin Tuft's house in Medford, and from Medford bridge the Boston road to Swan's shop, the first-mentioned bound. The intermediate roads are within the parole, and the back yards of the respective quarters to the distance of eighty yards from them. Dated December 13, 1777. Original in Boston Public Library. O'Callaghan, Burgoyne's Orderly book, 176. L. M. Hastings.