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Subject:	Re: Children in 1624/5 Muster (old post)
From:	Vickie Elam White <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:52:58 -0400
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Reyesuela <[log in to unmask]> wrote --

> Children likely wouldn't have
been considered important enough to record by all of them.  They might not
have seemed a "unit of production" yet. <

I would list this farther down on your list of possible explanations. 
Remember, 
muster lists were taken for 2 main reasons -- to find out how many
able-bodied 
men could be used for defense and to find out how much food and supplies
would be needed for the general population.  

So the numbers were probably much closer to being accurate than you
might think.


Vickie Elam White

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