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The French sent great numbers of vagrants to settle Mississippi
Source: The Southern Frontier #86
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Indeed, one might suppose that Oglethorpe, when he met Percival in February, 1730, had just come from a reading of Gee. Recalling that the French had lately sent over great numbers of vagrants to the settlements on the Mississippi, Gee urged that the methods used by the English for transporting convicts be employed as well 'for all Persons . . . that cannot find Methods of Subsistence at home.'
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