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Father Marquette with Louis Jolliet came down the Mississippi in bark canoes past the location that would be St Louis in 1673. They wrote that they were well recieved by the Indians in that area.

The Jamestown settlement (greater) area was estimated to have around 70,000 people in 1697.

By around 1740 the Carolinas were estimated to have over 100,000.

It is an interesting period in the "New World History".

Edited to add - The Hudson Bay Company was formed around 1670.