11 Total numbers of children known to have been born to completed families and all families in New England were as follows:

Town

Marriage Cohort

Comp.

All

Town

Marriage Cohort

Comp.

All

Plymouth

1st gen.

8.3

n.a.

 

1710-40

7.4

n.a.

 

2nd gen.

8.7

n.a.

 

1740-50

7.4

n.a.

 

3rd gen.

9.3

n.a.

 

1750-60

7.8

n.a.

Andover Mass.

1st gen.

8.3

8.3

 

1760-70

8.3

n.a.

 

2nd gen.

8.7

8.1

Concord Mass.

1750-70

7.1

5.4

 

3rd gen.

7.6

7.2

Sturbridge Mass.

1730-59

8.8

n.a.

Waltham Mass.

1671-80

9.0

n.a.

Brookline Mass.

1710-1810

7.2

6.5

 

1691-1700

8.3

n.a.

Windsor Conn.

1640-59

7.7

n.a.

 

1701-10

8.4

n.a.

 

1660-79

8.0

n.a.

 

1711-20

8.5

n.a.

 

1680-99

7.2

n.a.

 

1721-30

9.0

n.a.

 

1700-19

6.2

n.a.

 

1731-40

9.7

n.a.

 

1720-39

7.6

n.a.

Hingham Mass.

pre-1660

7.5

6.4

 

1740-59

6.6

n.a.

 

1661-80

7.9

7.7

 

1760-79

7.1

n.a.

 

1681-1700

6.0

5.5

Hampton N.H.

1638-74

8.6

7.5

 

1701-20

5.6

4.8

 

1675-99

7.3

6.7

 

1721-40

6.8

5.7

 

1700-24

7.7

6.4

 

1741-60

7.2

6.3

 

1725-49

7.2

6.9

Milford Mass.

1660-1710

8.4

n.a.

Nantucket

1680-1739

7.2

n.a.

Compiled from Demos, A Little Commonwealth, 192; Philip J. Greven, Jr., Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts (Ithaca, 1970); D. S. Smith, “Population, Family, and Society in Hingham, Massachusetts, 1635-1880” (unpubl. thesis, Berkeley, 1975); unpublished family reconstitution projects conducted under the direction of the author at Brandeis on Milford, Mass., by Sally Barrett; on Hampton, N.H., by Lawrence Kilbourne; on Nantucket by Carol Shuchman and Edward Byers; on Waltham by Susan Simmons; on Concord by Marc Harris, Susan Kurland, James Kimenker, Richard Weintraub and Joanne Early Levin; and on Brookline by Beth Linzner, Kenneth A. Dreyfuss, Alisa Belinkoff Katz and Bethamy Dubitzky Weintraub, and on Windsor, Conn., by Linda Auwers. Results have been partly published by Marc Harris, “The People of Concord: A Demographic History, 1750-1850,” in D. H. Fischer, ed., Concord, The Social History of a New England Town, 1750-1850 (Waltham, 1983); Beth Linzner, “Population and Society: A Demographic History of Brookline,” in D. H. Fischer, ed., Brookline the Social History of a Suburban Town (Waltham, 1986), 7-48; Lawrence J. Kilbourne, “The Fertility Transition in New England: The Case of Hampton, New Hampshire, 1655-1840,” in Robert M. Taylor, Jr., and Ralph J. Crandall, eds., Generations and Change: Genealogical Perspectives on Social History (Mercer, Ga., 1986).