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fettlements, which then had not been made more 
than feven years where they looked upon them- 
lelves as fafe and fecure ; a convincing proof that no 
men will face an enemy, like thofe who fight pro 
^11 et focis. Our fouthern colonies, in particular, 
have been drove before a defpicable enemy, like 
infant 
Itate of thefe colonies. 
The cenfus of the inhabitants of this colony, 
tranfruitted by Governor Fitch, A. D. 1756, by order 
of the Lords of Trade, was 128,218 fouls whites, 
1 7 blacks; that of the year 1762, 141,000 
ous whi^s, 4590 blacks, of which 900 were 
Indians. The levies of our fencible men diminilhed 
e increafe, fo that the left feven years the colony 
only lucreafed 13,000. On the peace, doubtlefs, the 
apidity of population will recover; and in how 
Ihort afpaceof time, the well fettling our new ac- 
quifitions may be effected, from all the American 
colonies colledively, I leave every one to determine; 
and I cannot but think, that, whenever the date of 
public affairs will permit the parliament of Great 
Lntain to advert to the peopling and fecuring the 
America, they will judge it 
Deft effected, as much as may be, from her colonies 
in America; and that the law prohibiting inocula- 
tion in America will be accordingly annulled, by 
their fuperintending authority, as prejudical to the 
population of the colonies. 
It appears from Dr. Douglafs's account of the 
fmall-pox in ^ the town of Bofton, where he lived, 
and made critical obfervations, the three lafl times 
that It was epidemical there, viz. A. D. 1721, 1730, 
and 
