Note 267 — Chapter VI · NEW ENGLAND AND THE GREAT MIGRATION
Reading edition
Century of Population, p. 9; F. B. Dexter, “Estimates of Population in American Colonies,” American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, 1889, vol. V, pp. 25, 32; Lucas, Historical Geography, pp. 142 f. 181. In 1645, there were 18,300 effective men in Barbadoes, which would indicate a much larger population. The population is given as 30,000 whites in 1650. F. W. Pitman, Development of the British West Indies (Yale Univ. Press, 1917), p. 370.