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Ferry Farm was 600 acres when the Washingtons owned it. Mount Vernon
was actually broken up into four farms, but I don't know if it was
considered four plantations or one. Their website might have more
acreage info.
My understanding is that individual plantation sizes in Virginia in
the eighteenth century were in the smaller range (maybe 1,000 acres
or less) rather than the huge, 3,000 acre ones found in 19th-century
cotton plantations or in the 18th-century Carolina
lowcountry. Virginia landowners may have owned just as much land,
but it was in individual plantations for the most part rather than
one single sweeping plantation.
Philip Morgan's book. Slave Counterpoint, discusses acreage of
plantations in both Virginia and South Carolina in the eighteenth
century. He talks about it in relation to where slaves lived, but he
has some good information in there on plantation size as well.
Hope this helps!!
Jessica Carter
At 06:35 PM 6/24/2009, you wrote:
>Is there any data on the sizes of colonial and 19C plantations? I am
>not interested in land grants or total holdings, but rather the sizes
>of individual plantations. So, for instance, the size of Ferry Farm or
>Mount Vernon rather than the total holdings of the Washingtons.
>
>Thanks
>Jim Brothers
>
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