5 Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer, letter XI.
6 Joseph Oxley, “Joseph’s Offering to His Children,” ms. HSP; Abigail Pemberton to Israel Pemberton, 5 day, 4 mo 1700, ms. HAV.
Group |
Cohort |
All |
Complete |
Incomplete |
n |
Philadelphia Elites |
m. 1700-75 |
7.5 |
9.2 |
6.0 |
42 |
|
m. 1776-1825 |
7.9 |
9.1 |
5.8 |
46 |
N.J. and Pa. Quakers |
b. before 1730 |
6.7 |
7.5 |
5.4 |
|
|
b. 1731-55 |
5.7 |
6.2 |
4.4 |
|
|
b. 1756-85 |
5.0 |
5.1 |
4.8 |
|
|
all cohorts |
5.7 |
6.0 |
4.9 |
276 |
Germantown Quakers |
first settlers |
5.8 |
|
|
14 |
Pa. Schwenkfelders |
m. 1735-64 |
|
5.3 |
|
28 |
|
m. 1765-89 |
|
6.1 |
|
39 |
N.J. and N.Y. Dutch |
m. 1685-89 |
|
8.9 |
|
34 |
|
m. 1760-89 |
|
7.0 |
|
46 |
New Paltz Huguenots |
m. 1750-74 |
|
7.3 |
|
28 |
|
m.1775-79 |
|
8.9 |
|
34 |
Sources: Louise Kantrow, “The Demographic History of a Colonial Aristocracy: A Philadelphia Case Study” (thesis, Univ.of Pa., 1976), 103-8; Robert V. Wells, “Family Size and Fertility Control in Eighteenth Century America: A Study of Quaker Families,” PS 25 (1971), 73-82; Stephanie Wolf, Urban Village (Princeton, 1976), 269; unpublished family reconstitution studies of Schwenkfelder, Dutch and Huguenot families prepared for the author by Lawrence J. Kilbourne.