Note 15 — Chapter III
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The slave population of New York has been estimated as follows:—
In1698,2,170.Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York, IV. 420.
"1703,2,258.N.Y. Col. MSS., XLVIII.; cited in Hough, N.Y. Census, 1855, Introd.
"1712,2,425.Ibid., LVII., LIX. (a partial census).
"1723,6,171.Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York, V. 702.
"1731,7,743.Ibid., V. 929.
"1737,8,941.Ibid., VI. 133.
"1746,9,107.Ibid., VI. 392.
"1749,10,692.Ibid., VI. 550.
"1756,13,548.London Doc., XLIV. 123; cited in Hough, as above.
"1771,19,863.Ibid., XLIV. 144; cited in Hough, as above.
"1774,21,149.Ibid.,"
"1786,18,889.Deeds in office Sec. of State, XXII. 35.
Total number of Africans imported from 1701 to 1726, 2,375, of whom 802 were from Africa: O'Callaghan, Documentary History of New York, I. 482.