re-peopled

Updated: June 12, 2025

We talked of times gone by; of the happy period of our early love; of Raymond, Perdita, and Evadne. We talked of what might arise on this desert earth, if, two or three being saved, it were slowly re-peopled.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The Last Man

Many seasons passed away, however, before the hills were all clothed with trees, or the dense cloud of leaves hid the bosom of the valleys. The earth was re-peopled from the loins of Sakechak; from him, from one family of Caddos, are all men descended.

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

Whether really frightened out of all recollection at the thought of that terrible "draft" which has already twice re-peopled Canada at the expense of the population of the United States, or whether exultant beyond bounds at the knowledge that he could escape it, by his age, in spite of them all, he uttered the fatal word, oblivious that Judge Owen stood angry and astonished at the parlor door, and that others to whom he had so roundly sworn that he was only thirty-two, were within hearing.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862

Pelletan, in his Memoirs of the French Colony of Senegal, says, "The negroes work with ardor, because they are now unmolested in their possessions and enjoyments. Since the suppression of slavery, the Moors make no more inroads upon them, and their villages are rebuilt and re-peopled."

Lydia Maria Francis Child - An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans