Let me add to Douglas Deal 's suggestions with a citation to David
Ransome's "Shipt for Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography 103 (Oct. 1995).

David Kiracofe


David Kiracofe
History
Tidewater Community College
Chesapeake Campus
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Chesapeake, Virginia 23322
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Randy:

There *are* statistics, but they are irregular and partial (or not what
we
really wish they had counted in the first place) for the whole colonial
era. At the moment, the best numbers (actual counts and estimates) are
to
be found in the works of the "new" social and economic historians of the
colonial Chesapeake. Anything by historians like Russell Menard, Lorena
S.
Walsh, Lois Green Carr, Darrel and Anita Rutman, Allan Kulikoff, John
McCusker, Peter Bergstrom, Philip Morgan, and Susan Westbrook, among
others, can be trusted to be pretty accurate. Some colonial statistics
(maybe most of what you seek) will be gathered in a chapter of the
newest
(third or "Millennial") edition of Historical Statistics of the United
States, to be released in 5 volumes and online by Cambridge University
Press in March 2006. Meanwhile, the old ("Bicentennial" edition) of the
same work will have to do.

Douglas Deal
Professor of History and Chair of History Department
State University of New York at Oswego
Oswego, NY 13126
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