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lieve, from more than one mode of calculation, that 

 general Campbell's estimate was near the truth. 

 This computation was made in 1780, since which 

 time I am of opinion, from the many loyal Americans 

 who have fixed themselves in Jamaica, and other 

 causes, this number is considerably increased. Inclu- 



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ding the troops and sea-faring people, the white po- 

 pulation may, I think, be fixed at 30,OOO. 



The freed negroes and people of colour are com- 

 puted, in a report of a committee of the house of 

 assembly of the 12th of November 1788, at 500 in 

 each parish, on an average of the whole; which 

 makes 10,000 exclusive of the black people called 

 Maroons, who enjoy freedom by treaty. 



Of negroes in a state of slavery in this island, the 

 precise number in December, 1787, as ascertained on 

 oath in the rolls from which the poll-tax is levied, 

 was 210,894 ; and as it may answer more useful pur- 

 poses hereafter than the mere gratification of curi- 

 osity, I shall distinguish the numbers in each parish ; 

 which are the following: 



St. Dorothy 3,129 



St. Catherine - 5,304 



St. John - 5,880 



St. Thomas in the Vale - - 7,459 



Yere - - - 7,437 



Carried over 29,259 



See the Historical Account of the Maroons. 



