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A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON NEW ENGLAND GROWTH Since the net reproduction rate (NRR) summarizes fertility, mortality, and marital patterns and is also algebraically related to the intrinsic growth rate of the population, it is a particularly use-ful measure for contrasting the demographic structures of two societies.
The only authoritative work on agriculture in colonial New England is a History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-186o by P. W. Bidwell and J. I. Falconer. In discussing the average area of land holdings in early seventeenth century New England they offer a figure of 25 to 50 acres. But, as the authors freely admit, the
7 Φεβ 2024 · Using probate data for 72 settlements in New England to measure the growth of farmers as a proxy for colonial territorial growth, I find a general pattern that English settlements with higher rates of population and territorial growth experienced more violent conflict during King Philip’s War.
Abstract. A large number of Englishmen, predominantly from the West Country and East Anglia, began the settlement of New England in 1630. In the sparsely populated North American wilderness they established a new society.
Also, infant and childhood mortality rates were lower in New England, and the settlers produced large and healthy families — most having seven or more children. Accordingly, New England experienced tremendous population growth within the lifetime of first generation settlers.
11 Μαΐ 2010 · The central fact of the demographic history of early North America is rapid growth. Both Canada and the white population of the English colonies experienced increases of 2½ percent per year during the eighteenth century. Seventeenth-century rates, beginning from a low base and more influenced by immigration, were even higher.
There are at least two reasons why the population grew more quickly in New England than in the South. First, there was the fact that the South was dominated by plantations that were...
