Best place to start for earliest Virginia population statistics is martha
Woodruff Hiden's transcription of the census taken at the close of the
Company period - first published I think in WMQ but most readily available
in any of the several editions of Adventurers of Purse and Person
published since the first in, I think, 1956.....

A good source for summaries for the whole colonial period is the Census
Bureau's 2-vol. Historical Statistics of the United States, which has lots
of tables of population statistics and other data based on scholarship
current as of its publication - again there have been many editions - the
bicentennial edition of 1976 has the spiffiest cover - some libraries
catalogue these volumes in Reference - others treat it as a government
document - and some of the better research libraries I've worked in have
copies in both places....
jk


> 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]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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
>> [log in to unmask]
>> (315)-312-5632
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