Thanks, David for your reply.  I don't know whether it just me, out here in
the boonies near Winchester, but I have a very difficult time getting to the
many references.

Do you know if there are any plans for some body to publish something that
ties a lot of the stuff together and is readily available at book stores.
It looks like to me the time is as ripe as it is going to be for another
hundred years to do something like that.

Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kiracofe" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Jamestowne - Stats et al


> 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
> 1428 Cedar Road
> Chesapeake, Virginia 23322
>>>> [log in to unmask]  >>>
> 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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> (315)-312-5632
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