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80 1717.

“to the colony, besides one hundred and fifty galley slaves, and several hundred females taken from the charity & correction houses.  During the same period one thousand four hundred & forty one Africans were landed in Louisiana.  This increase of population not having been accompanied with a proportional enlargement of the means of subsistence, involved the whole colony in the deepest distress, so that hundreds perished with hunger.”  Ling: Ch: 89.