The difference between a plantation and a farm is what was produced not the
size. Washington's holdings were called farms because they produced
provisions.
HBG
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From: "Jessica Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Plantations
> 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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