6,000 ...
Maryland 85,000 5.00
Massachusetts 220,000 4.46
New Hampshire 30,000 4.17
New Jersey 60,000 6.25
New York 100,000 4.86
North Carolina 45,000 16.67
Pennsylvania[451:B] 250,000 23.96
Rhode Island 35,000 5.21
South Carolina 30,000 6.84
Virginia 85,000 2.34
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All classes 1,046,000 6.23

By this table it appears that the greatest advance in population took
place in Pennsylvania and North Carolina; the least in Virginia. The
average increase of all the colonies was a little more than six per
cent. in forty-eight years, from 1701 to 1749.

[451:B] Delaware included in Pennsylvania.

CHAPTER LIX.

1752.

Dinwiddie, Governor--Ohio Company--Lawrence Washington--His
Views on Religious Freedom--Davies and the Dissenters--
Dissensions between Dinwiddie and the Assembly--George
Washington--His Lineage--Early Education--William Fairfax--
Washington a Surveyor--Lord Fairfax--Washington Adjutant-General.

A NEW epoch dawns with the administration of Robert Dinwiddie, who
arrived in Virginia as lieutenant-governor early in 1752, with the
purpose of repressing the encroachments of the French, of extending the
confines of Virginia, and of enlarging the Indian trade. A vast tract of
land, mostly lying west of the mountains and south of the Ohio, was
granted by the king about the year 1749, to a company of planters and
merchants. This scheme appears to have been brought forward in the
preceding year by Thomas Lee of the council, and he became associated
with twelve persons in Virginia and Maryland, and with Mr. Hanbury, a
London Quaker merchant, and they were incorporated as "The Ohio
Company." Lawrence and Augustine Washington were early and prominent
members of this company. The company sent out Mr. Christopher Gist to
explore the country on the Ohio as far as the falls. He was, like Boone,
from the banks of the Yadkin, an expert pioneer, at home in the
wilderness and among the Indians, adventurous, hardy, and intrepid.
Crossing the Ohio, he found the country well watered and wooded, with
here and there plains covered with wild rye, or meadows of blue grass
and clover.