Note 146 — Chapter XIV · SOCIETY IN THE OLD DOMINION.
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Smyth’s Tour in the United States, London, 1784, i. 72. In 1748 Maryland had 98,357 free whites, 6,870 redemptioners, 1,981 convicts, and 42,764 negroes. See Williams, History of the Negro Race in America, i. 247.