We'd been discussing this on the "Reenactor's Age" thread,
http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/...2&page=1&pp=10 , but I thought it kind of deserves it's own thread.
I was researching something entirely different when I chanced upon the following, which has some really interesting facts about life expectency during the days at Plimouth Plantation and early New England.
http://www.plimoth.org/learn/history/myth/Deadat40.asp I realize that it's rather before our time, but the information is still quite fascinating when one considers all the hardships that our ancestors endured when first settling this country. I know my great (however many times) grandfather didn't make it the first winter at Plimouth, :cry_smile but his son did, thanks to Kathy Bradford's great whatever grandfather :wink_smil
If you'd like to read up on some other statistics closer to the CW era, see:
Report on the vital statistics of the United States, made to the Mutual life insurance company of New York, by James Wynne., 1857, at the University of Michigan's Making of America website:
Linda Trent
lindatrent@zoomnet.net
http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/...2&page=1&pp=10 , but I thought it kind of deserves it's own thread.
I was researching something entirely different when I chanced upon the following, which has some really interesting facts about life expectency during the days at Plimouth Plantation and early New England.
http://www.plimoth.org/learn/history/myth/Deadat40.asp I realize that it's rather before our time, but the information is still quite fascinating when one considers all the hardships that our ancestors endured when first settling this country. I know my great (however many times) grandfather didn't make it the first winter at Plimouth, :cry_smile but his son did, thanks to Kathy Bradford's great whatever grandfather :wink_smil
If you'd like to read up on some other statistics closer to the CW era, see:
Report on the vital statistics of the United States, made to the Mutual life insurance company of New York, by James Wynne., 1857, at the University of Michigan's Making of America website:
Linda Trent
lindatrent@zoomnet.net
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