3 Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones, Atlas of World Population History (New York, 1978), 69-71 passim.
4 These estimates are higher than those of other scholars; they are discussed at greater length in “The Dying Time,” forthcoming.
5 Evidence (from mortality registers privately kept in most Massachusetts towns) will appear in “The Dying Time.”
6 Clegg, Diary, I, 35, 22 May 1728.