Billy G. Smith
Author
Publisher
Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
35 microfiches
Language
English
Description
"I propose to study the demographic and economic conditions of the city of Philadelphia and, in particular, of its laboring people during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The demographic study will be based on the birth, marriage, and death registers of several Philadelphia churches, the city's bills of mortality, the vital statistics recorded by Doctor Thomas C. James during the early nineteenth-century, and the passenger arrival lists...