The Population of England's Colonies in America: Old English or New Americans?
- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Population Studies
- Vol. 46 (1) , 85-102
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0032472031000146026
Abstract
In this paper growth rates, marriage patterns, fertility, mortality, population composition and urbanization in England and her American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are compared. The purpose is to see whether the colonists perpetuated English demographic patterns in the New World, or whether new environments led to new behaviour. The results are derived from numerous local studies, often based on family reconstitution. Taking into account regional variations in America, colonial demographic patterns were quite different from those in the mother country.Keywords
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