Influences on the Distribution of Landholdings in Early Colonial North Carolina

Robert E. Gallman

The Journal of Economic History, 1982, vol. 42, issue 3, 549-575

Abstract: The economy of North Carolina in the early colonial period was agrarian. Land was a central element in the wealth stock and it was distributed unevenly among households. This paper analyzes the distribution of land by means of multiple regression models employing measures of the principal life events of households. This paper analyzes the distribution of land by means of multiple regression models employing measures of the principal life events of households. The data are drawn from an eastern community, Perquimans County, and refer to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.

Date: 1982
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