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to be Six Thousand Nine Hundred and 
Thirty Seven, (6937). In the year 1801-2, 
the Lieutenant Governor ordered another 
account to be taken, by which it appeared 
that there were 723 Persons who posses¬ 
sed Landed Property, and whose Wives, 
Children, Relations, Friends, Servants, 
and Slaves, amounted to 9587, of which 
number, 1222 only, were Slaves; the 
total amounts to 10,310. But this enu¬ 
meration of the Inhabitants, though made 
with every degree of care and attention, 
cannot, on account of the difficulties 
opposed to such an operation, by the 
peculiar habits of the People, be consi¬ 
dered as positively accurate. It being 
certain, however, that the error does not 
lie in having over-rated the Inhabitants, 
we may safely venture to estimate the 
population of the Island at 12,000, every 
Person included; a larger Population than 
has perhaps been knotfn in any Settle-* 
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