I would think that the only useful answers to this question are those devised for particular regions, periods, and crop "regimes." With reference to tobacco in the colonial Chesapeake, relevant information appears in the work of Carville Earle, Lorena S. Walsh, Allan Kulikoff, Russell Menard, Lois Green Carr, and P. M. G. Harris (Walsh, in particular). 

Doug Deal
History/SUNY Oswego

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From: James Brothers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:17 pm
Subject: Plantations
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> 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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