I am slowly going through what must be a semester of reading about Jamestowne.  Wow, there is a lot I did not know.  I still have COLONIAL VIRGINIA to tackle, but flipping through it, I don't see that it answers the two questions that have grown in my mind.

#1 Statistics.  I get the impression that there are almost no statistics of much of anything until ?????  I would like to find something that estimated population, births, deaths, etc.  Also ship comings and goings, like a harbormasters log.  All I recall seeing is that old note about 'in 1620 a Dutch ship brought slaves to America."  Anything touching upon statistics?

#2 The personal life, particularly taverns.  Williamsburg book shops are awash with tavern songs, musick of colonial Virginia, et al.  And we have the Raleigh Tavern, Christiana Campbell's Tavern, etc.  But I can find next to nothing factual about Jamestowne taverns or songs.  With their heritage of good ale, those Englishmen must have had several watering holes, and must have sung good drinking songs.  (Incidentally I'm backing into "what might have been" in the way of songs after locating some very good CDs by the York Waits and the Oxford Waits -- one CD is even devoted to songs of 1606)

Randy Cabell

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