Note 721 — Chapter V
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Towards 1700, “about half of the Albemarle settlement was composed of Quakers.” (Hawks, ii. p. 89.) They had been, at an earlier day, driven from Massachusetts and Virginia. (Ib. p. 362.) They did not, however, at any time amount to 2,000, and constituted a small minority of the whole population in the colony (p. 369).