Beside boys and girls under 12 years old, who were supposed to be more than three times that number. Hutchinson.

Indians in North Carolina, who lived near the settlements, or had any intercourse with the white inhabitants.

"According to a late statement of the different Indian tribes and nations from the Lakes of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, there exist in that space, and along the western side of Mississippi, fifty-two Nations. The total amount of the men belonging to which (fit for bearing arms) is 58,930; of which there may be about 35,000 warriors." Pres. Stiles, Literary Diary, from New York Journal, Dec. 1. 1762.

1778.

"Thomas Hutchins, geographer to the United States, in his Topographical Description of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, printed in 1778, enumerates 51 clans or tribes of Indians, with the fighting men in each. They amount to 13,830 fighting men or warriors between Mississippi and Hudsons's river, and north of the river Ohio. Those west of Mississippi and Lake Superior he estimates at 10,000 more, making 23,000 in all. Of these the Six Nations are 2120 warriors, the Senecas being 1000 of these. The lowest tribe or clan 30 warriors, and so up to 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500. Only two of 1000, viz. Senecas and Chipewas. Four clans on Waubash make a body of 1000. The Shawanoes or Scioto are 300.. Six clans conjoined are 4000; these are the Kickapoes, Ontagonies, &c. on Lake Michigan, and thence to Mississippi." Stiles, Literary Diary.

Indians in Connecticut in 1774.

A census of the inhabitants of Connecticut was taken that year, and there were then in that colony 1363 Indians; of this number 842 were within the county of N. London.

Oneidas.

The number of Oneidas before the war of the revolution was 410, of which 120 joined the British. Dr. Stiles' MS. from Rev. Mr. Kirkland, their missionary.

Indians and people of colour on Martha's Vineyard in 1823.

At Gay Head, 250; in other parts of the Island, 176; total, 426. Information from Mr. Frederick Baylies, missionary to those Indians from the Society for propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America.

For the number of Cherokees, Chactaws, Upper Creeks, and Chickasaws in 1733, see that year.

About the year 1760.

Governor Pownall, in reference to the Indians, says: "Of this formidable enemy, the numbers, by the latest accounts, are 23,105 fighting men." Administration of the Colonies, 2d edit. Lond. 1765. How far the estimate extended, does not appear; but, from the connexion in which the passage stands, it probably included the hostile Indians on all the frontiers of the colonies.

1764.

Number of the Indians who inhabit the country within five or six days' march of Detroit, as taken from their own account.

Narragansets.

1730, 1774, 1828.

In 1730, there were left in the colony of Rhode Island not more than 985 Forty-four years after, their number was 1482 Callender's Century Discourse, and Note on Gookin's Historical Collections of the Indians in New England, in Coll. Mass. Hist. Society, i. 210. "There seems here to be an increase. But it should be remembered, that in the year 1740, Attleborough Gore, and the towns of Bristol, Tiverton, and Little Compton, and a great part of Swanzey and Barrington.-which probably contained a large proportion of Indians in the colony, had been taken from Massachusetts, and annexed to Rhode Island.”The present number is estimated at about 400. Letter from the Clerk of the Council of that tribe of Indians, dated "Charlestown [R. I.] August 26th, A. D. 1828." T. Ross, the aboriginal writer of the letter, says: "We find it is out of our power to give the correct number of our tribe at present, but have endeavoured to ascertain as near as we possibly could; and I find the number to be something like four hundred in this town and the adjacent towns.-As to our reservations of land, we have about three thousand acres. . . Signed in behalf of the Naraganset tribe of Indians.

1813.

Tobias Ross, C. Clerk."

Indian tribes east of the Mississippi, and north of the Ohio to the Lakes. Wyandots, Chippewas, Ottaways, &c. in all, 19 tribes, 5204 warriors, 19,220 souls.

Indians south of the Missouri and Platte rivers, and north of the Arkansas; or, between the Arkansaw and Missouri rivers:

10,152 warriors; 37,839 souls.

Indians north of the Missouri and Lakes, and west of the Mississippi, in the United States, including Louisiana:

4100 warriors; 15,900 souls.

Report of Messrs. John F. Schermerhorn and Samuel J. Mills, to The Society for propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North Amer.ca, in 2 Coil. Mass. Hist. Society, ii. 1—45. In that Report the names of all the enumerated tribes

are given, and the number in each tribe. Mr. Mills wrote to the Secretary of the Society: "We could not ascertain satisfactorily, the situation of any tribe north of the Ohio, on account of the disturbances occasioned by the war." The commission to obtain information concerning the remote Indian tribes was given to him and his colleague missionary in 1812.

1825.

The number of Indians eastward of the Missssippi, according to a Report made by the Secretary of War, was about 80,000. Memoirs of Hist. Society of Pennsylvania, i. 45. For Indian Antiquities, and various notices of the Aborigines of America, see Archaologia Americana, of the American Antiquarian Society.

Historical View of Slavery in the United States, and Walsh's Appeal.

In 1787, the British exportation of slaves from Africa was 36,000, of whom 15,862 were retained for the service of the British plantations, and 20,138 were supplied to foreign settlements. The total number of the ships employed in the importation of Negroes from Africa to the West Indies, in 1787, was 85, their total burden, 12,183 tons. The total white population of the West India Islands, in 1787, was 49,762 souls; the total negro population, 465,276.-In 1802, the slaves imported by British traders from Africa were 36,621; of whom 15,973 were retained for service in the British plantations; the rest, being 20,658, were re-exported to foreign settlements. In 1803, the importation was 28,355; of whom 5212 were re-exported, and 23,137 retained.-In May, 1806, an act of parliament was passed, by which the trade in African slaves was, by a resolution of the two houses, declared to be "contrary to the principles of justice, humanity, and sound policy." Young's West India Common Place Book. Sǝe 1808.

INDEX.

N. B. The numeral letters refer to the volume; the figures, to the page. From 1492 to 1607 the refer-
ence is to the year only; the European discoveries and settlements are thus distinguished in the Index
from the English colonies and United States.