Colonial New England Demography
A Sampling Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3422115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Higgs (0000-0003-2909-6555, corresponding author), H Louis Stettler |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 282 |
| Publication date | 1970-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1918654 |
| OpenAlex | W2327496353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
HIS paper presents a more broadly based collection of quantitative evidence than has previously been available on the demography of colonial New England. This subject has recently attracted considerable research, but existing studies suffer from a serious restrictioneach deals with only a single town.' Unfortunately, each town was to a large extent a special case; the demographic characteristics of each were shaped by a variety of strictly local events-harvest failures, epidemics, Indian depredations-as well as by colony-wide cultural and economic forces. To name only a few such sources, a town's population growth depended on the initial age and sex distributions of its founders, the date of settlement, the rate at which migration occurred, and the proximity and extent of competing economic opportunities. Consequently, it is necessary to expand our observations from one town to many. This strategy has its cost, of course, for the greater detail and familiarity which can be achieved in a study of a single town must be sacrificed, but the benefits of a wide-ranging sampling approach more than compensate for this loss. Most important, a study encompassing many towns-we have considered twenty-provides a firmer foundation for generalization than does the detailed investigation of a single town. Our approach depends
Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Sampling (signal processing · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Computer Science · Demography · History
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 1974 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |