You might also want to take a look at Fischer and Kelly, "Bound Away; VA and
the Westward Movement" (University Press of VA., etc., 2000) His analysis
and approaches are comparable to "Albion's Seed".  

Paul    
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Nancy
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On Dec 3, 2008, at 8:26 PM, Cynthia McDaniel wrote:

> According to Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer, literacy in VA  
> during
> the 17th century depended upon your station in life.  Among the  
> gentry,
> almost 100% were literate.  They educated their children with private
> tutors.  Below that rank, the figure of literacy declines:
>
> Status of Father 	Male  Female
> High 			100% 	100%
> High Middle 	87	80
> Middle 		80 	17
> Lower Middle 	44 	20
> Lower 		50(?)	5.3  (I suspect the first figure for males
is wrong
> since it is higher that the figure for the lower middle class...but  
> that's
> what Fischer says.)
>

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