American colonial wealth estimates, 1774
By: principal investigator, Alice Hanson Jones
Series: ICPSR -- 7329; ICPSR (Series) -- 7329
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Wealth; History; Economic conditions
Description: This collection was produced by an extensive research project that cataloged and analyzed the various types of wealth in the American colonies in 1774 just before the Revolution. County probate records were collected and studied in the New England colonies, the Middle Colonies, New York, and the South (mainly Charleston, South Carolina), both in rural and urban settings. Altogether, the probate inventories of 919 decedents were analyzed in 21 colonial counties and every attempt was made to assure that a random sample was gathered.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class III.

Chronological coverage: 1774.

United States.

24 separate data files, containing from 23 to 9,867 records, each wit logical record lengths ranging from 17-160 characters per record. The dat sets have from 4-33 variables. There are three wealth summary files (one for each of the three regions), six middle colony wealth detail files, one wealth summary (middle colonies) file, one age in years file (all colonies), eight ordered files listing wealth of each decendent (all regions), and five files of regression analyses for the Southern colonies.

Jones, Alice Hanson. Wealth of a Nation to Be: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.

Jones, Alice Hanson. American Colonial Wealth, Documents and Methods, Volumes I, II, III. New York: Arno Press, 1977.