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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html