What is this? I've never heard of any such definition. I have, for a
example, a will from 1770 in which the testator devises his
"plantation" to his sons. It was all of 400 acres and I doubt much of
it was used to produce anything except booze and a few livestock.
On Jun 28, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Harold Gill wrote:
> 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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>> 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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