15 David Ramsey, History of South Carolina from Its First Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808 (2 vols., Charleston, 1809), II, 600.
16 Mark Kaplanoff obtained the following estimates of mean age at marriage from an ingenious analysis of the South Carolina census of 1800, for marriages contracted in the population living at that time.
District |
Males |
Females |
Greenville |
22.3 |
19.4 |
Newberry |
21.4 |
19.1 |
Sumter |
20.9 |
19.8 |
Source: Unpublished research, communicated by the kindness of Mark Kaplanoff.
17 In England before 1750, mean age at first marriage of women was 26.9 in twenty-six southern parishes, and 23.5 in sixteen northern parishes. Age at marriage was generally higher in all British regions than in the American colonies, but relative differences were much the same. See Michael W. Flinn, The European Demographic System, 1500-1820 (Baltimore, 1981), 124-25.