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 >> >> 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 >> > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial 1250 Red Hill Road Brookneal, Virginia 24528 www.redhill.org Phone 434-376-2044 or 800-514-7463 Fax 434-376-2647 - M. Lynn Davis, Office Manager - Karen Gorham-Smith, Associate Curator - Edith Poindexter, Curator To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html