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6762. POPULATION, Extension of.—[further continued].

We have lately seen a
single person go and decide on a settlement in
Kentucky, many hundred miles from any white
inhabitant, remove thither with his family and
a few neighbors; and though perpetually harassed
by the Indians, that settlement in the
course of ten years has acquired thirty thousand
inhabitants.—
To M. de Meunier. Washington ed. ix, 276. Ford ed., iv, 181.
(P. 1786)


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