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Billy1121 t1_itadth0 wrote

Georgia was said to be, but really they went to Massachusetts and Maryland as indentured types

> It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to the Americas this way, and the majority landed in the Chesapeake Colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Transported convicts represented perhaps one-quarter of Britons that left the country during the 18th century.

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