Just reading about a flurry of hurricanes circa 1793-1794, in a historical memoir available online from Library of Congress. The author says there had been none between that date and 1780. He is talking about Louisiana region, which at that time went all the way to western Mississippi.
How in the world can any scientist say whether a hurricane season is out of the ordinary? You really need historians to answer this.
But the people in the area did not do a very good job of recording hurricanes. They were just big storms that came out of nowhere, lasted maybe 12 hours, caused a lot of damage, and then moved on. And recorded history, depending on the settlement, began later than 1700, more like 1719, when John Law got the Company of the Indes going, prior to bankruptcy.
Large parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida were not settled until after the cession of what is now called "west Florida" to the British in 1763. Whether there was someone there to record the storm, and whether that record still exists, is iffy.
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